James Hay, dated 1900. 3-storey with attic, gabled baroque shops, former post office and tenements on prominent corner site; 5-bay to Ayr Street; 6-bay to Academy Street; single bay to S corner. Squared and snecked stugged red sandstone; polished sandstone dressings; rendered side elevation to Academy Street. Raised corner plinth; ground floor banding between openings (shopfronts to outer left); architraved corbel course to 1st floor oriel; architraved cill course at 2nd floor; corniced eaves; balustraded parapet. Predominantly round arched openings at ground; square headed windows to upper floors (corniced with blocked surrounds in part); projecting cills; some columnar mullions at 2nd floor; bipartite and single windows. 2nd floor corniced gabled windows comprising corbelled plinths, flanking columns, central pilasters beneath round arched, pedimented Dutch gableheads; flanking ball finials.
With its boldly modelled windows, balustraded parapet, unusual Dutch gables and various blocked openings, this prominent corner block is an imposing commercial and residential development. Formerly the Royal Bank of Scotland, marked on the 1909 Ordnance Survey map as a Post Office.
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