Royal Bank Of Scotland, 53-55 High Street, Linlithgow

David Rhind, 1859. Tall 2-storey and attic, asymmetrical Baronial bank. Squared, coursed and stugged cream sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings. Base course, stepped moulded string courses at ground, corbelled above 1st floor windows, moulded eaves course, roll-moulded reveals to windows, bipartite and tripartite windows with stone mullions, cable moulding to oriel and turret.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 asymmetrical bays with prominent circular angle tower advanced to right. 3 closely grouped windows at ground to centre, 2 windows at 1st floor; round-headed doorpiece with boarded door to outer left, corbelled bipartite semi-bowed oriel above with corbelled eaves course and stone roof; roofline broken by corbelled angle turret to left composed of narrow window to E, swept eaves and conical slate roof with finial (label-stop below turret with DR monogram); 3 gabled and finialled dormerheaded windows to rightbrokedn 2nd bay from left by coupled wallhead stacks on curvilinear base.

TOWER: 3 stages; round-headed architraved doorpiece with fanlit baoarded door, date and 'CBS' monogram over, stepped string course above; window on left return; single window at 1st floor, corbelled above with row of gargoyles over, narrow window to W to upper stage; corbelled eaves course, conical slate roof with finial.

E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: crowstepped gables.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; corniced, corbelled and canted 1-2-1 oriel window to left at 1st floor, 2 windows at attic each set in crowstepped and chimneyed gables with beak skewputts; corbelled angle turret to left (conical roof removed). 2-storey wing projecting to right with piended slate roof.

GATEWAYS: single storey corniced screen walls flanking that to left with blocking course, each with round-headed doors.

4-pane and plate glass sash and case windows, 1930's sashes to tripartite window at ground. Grey slate roof, sandstone corniced stacks to gables.

GATEPIERS GATES AND RAILINGS: fronted by low wall with wrought and cast-iron railing of foliated and thistle panels, squared piers with low pyramidal caps with gates detailed as railings.