Bellevue Road, St Ann's Hill Garden Walls and Gatepiers, Banff
Description: Bellevue Road, St Ann's Hill Garden Walls and Gatepiers
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 21882
OS Grid Coordinates: 368713, 863651
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6617, -2.5260
Location: Gardiner's Brae, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AW
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AW
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Listing Text
Before 1823, remodelled as Tudoresque gabled villa by A & W Reid, architects, Elgin, 1846. Asymmetrical house of 2 storeys and attic with 3 front bays in S facing garden facade. Harled with considerable use of ashlar margins and dressings. Advanced front porch; large mullioned and transomed windows with multi-pane glazing. Tall octagonal shafted chimney stacks; slate roof.
Rear lst floor entry served by forestair with fine earlier l9th century decorative cast-iron balustrade.
GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPIERS: garden enclosed by coped rubble wall. Pair octagonal gatepiers with facetted, moulded caps flank Bellevue Road entrance; low harled quadrants link with square end piers.
References:
Wood's map of Banff, 1823. ABERDEEN JOURNAL, July 22, l846; advertisement for tenders.
Notes:
House appears on Wood's map, 1823. Garden bounded on N by Gardiner's Brae.
Source: Historic Scotland
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