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Bank, still in use, built by James McCallum in 1937 as the National Commercial Bank, with re-set Scottish 17th century details from the house formerly on this site. It is an asymmetrical two-storey, five-bay bank, with a return three-bay gable to Strait Path (south). It is constructed from varied materials, with a deep black polished granite base course below a tooled ashlar sandstone first floor with some coursed rubble. Elsewhere the building is harled, with a generous use of tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The outer bays are slightly advanced, with the southern advanced bay having the main bank entrance, and at the north with a doorway to the legal offices above the bank. Both entrances have moulded doorpieces with the carved crest of the National Commercial Bank above the main bank entrance, which has flanking side lights. The three centre ground-floor bays have irregular fenestration, with a bipartite in the first floor above the bank entrance. The south return gable has three ground and two first floor windows. There is margined glazing in the ground floor windows, eight-pane upper lights. The first floor windows have long and short margins, eight-pane upper lights and single pane lower lights in sash and case. Between the first and ground floors of the south advanced gable and continuing along the south gable is a pronounced moulded cornice. There is a steeply pitched Cornish brown/grey slate roof with wallhead, ridge and mid-roof stacks, and five carved 17th and early 18th century monogrammed pediments and armorials re-set in the south return gable. These are from the house of Thomas Ogilvy that was formerly occupying the site. Inside, all joinery and interior finishing woodwork is by Scott Morton, of Tynecastle Works, Edinburgh. The plaster work is by A Finnie and Co, Edinburgh. The large banking hall absorbs the greater part of the ground floor, and is lit by windows to the east, west and north. The uninterrupted ceiling span is supported by hexagonal polished wooden columns (all banking hall woodwork in Honduras mahogany). The originally panelled banking counter has small carved panels depicting hunting, shooting and fishing, and there are original bronzed railings to the counter (tellers' booths), the stiffeners with small Scottish lion and saltire finials. Other features include a deep moulded foliated plaster ceiling frieze, panelled dado, and moulded doorpiece to the interior face of the main entrance door. The manager's office has a panelled dado, and dated (1937) chimneypiece and panelled cupboards, all Austrian oak. The first floor offices have panelled dadoes, doors and original chimneypieces executed in Columbian pine.
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