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Summary

Description

Circa 1860. 2-storey Scots Baronial bank building with late 20th century single storey extension with shaped gable to W. 1st floor string course; crowstepped dormer gables; dormer window set diagonally at SW corner. Tripled arched bank office front at ground floor painted; cast-iron attached columns. Rubble course to principal elevation; square and snecked rubble to other elevations. Recently attached mid 19th century style lantern at right corner at 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripled arched bank front to left: 2 windows with door to right; simple architraves to door and windows; attached columns with leaf capitals on chamfered plinths between two windows and between right window and doorway; stone shaped margins and console brackets punctuated with circular recess. Single window at 1st floor above central arch; crowstepped dormer with medallion inset with flower-head; thistle finial. Bipartite to right at ground floor; oriel window with bipartite at 1st floor above with leaf freize at bottom corbel; chamfered sides with shaped stops; crowstepped dormer with medallion inset with flower-head; floreate finial. Arched doorway at right bay; segmental fanlight; blind panel above door; cable-moulded hood. Diagonally set dormer window at SW angle at 1st floor; crowstepped gable with medallion inset with flower-head; floreate finial.

W ELEVATION: adjoining building at ground floor. Single window in right bay of gablehead at 1st floor. Single window in left bay of rear part at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: not seen.

E ELEVATION: adjoining building at ground floor. Blank gablehead. Bipartite in right bay at 1st floor. Single window in centre bay at 1st floor.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to arched bank front. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews. Lozenge shaped, corniced gable stacks; tall rendered stack to rear

INTERIOR: not seen 2000

Statement of Special Interest

The building was purpose built for the Clydesdale Bank and its use has never changed. The door to the right leads to a separate office. This was originally the access to the manager's house. The one-storey W extension was a Post Office at the date of the first listing in 1979 but has recently become part of the Bank's property. It is one of the few Scots Baronial buildings in the town and as such is distinctive within the townscape of Queensferry but it is a standard style of local branch offices built during the later 19th century.

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