Bank Of Scotland, 2 High Street

Dated 1882. 3-storey, 3-bay, square-plan Tudor-style bank with advanced gabled bays and gabled dormers breaking eaves with decorative bargeboards. Coursed red sandstone with smooth ashlar quoins and window margins to principal elevations; random whinstone rubble to rear. Central entrance door with recessed, engaged colonnettes and arched hoodmould; pleated corbel detail over chamfered corner. Stone mullioned tri- and bipartite windows, some with grooved transoms at eaves; projecting corbelled cills to first floor. Projecting square stair tower to rear.

Assorted glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows to upper floors, fixed timber casements to ground floor. Graded grey slate roof with timber bracketed overhanging eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced, shouldered rectangular wallhead stacks, some with rounded ends; plain clay cans.

INTERIOR: some fine interior detailing survives including decorative plasterwork to most rooms. Elegant 3-storey, dog-leg stair with barley-twist cast-iron banisters. 5-panel timber doors.