Commercial Bank Of Scotland, 3-5 Exchange Street, Jedburgh

The Commercial Bank of Scotland, located at 3-5 Exchange Street in Jedburgh, was designed by David Rhind in 1868. This symmetrical, three-storey, five-bay building features an Italianate style and is constructed from cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. The building has a base course and a regular arrangement of windows. The ground and first floors have round-headed windows with moulded architraves, keystones, and cornices.

At the center, there is a tiered feature with balustraded balconies supported by console cornices on both the ground and first floors. The broad round-arched opening at the center of the ground floor has a bearded mask on the keystone and is flanked by panelled pilasters that frame a pair of round-headed doorways. These doorways have panelled doors with moulded architraves that spring from Composite columns. Above the doors, there is a tympanum featuring a carved rosette and panels, with carved soffits. The doors are square-headed and close behind the arch. The flanking windows have architraves that are splayed at the base and cornices with acroteria. A dentilled cornice continues at the ground level, terminating at rusticated pilaster quoins.

On the first floor, there is a bipartite window at the center, with a simplified roll-moulded Tuscan version of the doorpiece below and an oculus in the tympanum. The cill course continues to support the coping of the balustrade, with brackets to the windows and panelled pilaster quoins.

The second floor features a cill course similar to the first, with squat rectangular windows that have lugged and shouldered architraves, flanked by single panel pilaster quoins. Above this, there is a heavy dentilled cornice with a stone balustrade, along with panelled dies, the principal ones capped with segmental pediments.

The building has timber sash and case plate glass windows, and the coped rendered stacks are located on the mutual wallheads with original octagonal cans.

Inside, the left-hand door leads to council offices on the ground floor, which show no traces of the banking hall. The right-hand door leads via a stair with a stained glass window to the upper floor, with both doors opening into a small inner hall.