10 Carmelite Street, Former Post Office, Banff
Description: 10 Carmelite Street, Former Post Office
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 21931
OS Grid Coordinates: 369012, 863975
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6646, -2.5210
Location: B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AD
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AD
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Listing Text
W T Oldrieve, l906. Edwardian Renaissance; asymmetrical single storey, 5-bay former Post Office. Tooled and polished ashlar frontage and single bay return gable. Wide gabled outer bay containing pedimented tripartite window with granite Roman doric columns. Off centre entrance with inscribed bracketted and corniced plaque above; 3 square-headed keystoned windows at left with moulded jambs; plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced and blocked wallhead; shallow piended slate roof.
INTERIOR: (l994) interior gutted and altered as offices.
References:
A E Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919), p 30. Charles McKean, BANFF AND BUCHAN, AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1990), p 31.
Notes:
Constructed as Post Office; ceased functioning as such l993-4. Plaque above entrance inscribed POST OFFICE. Incised cartouche above tripartite window contains shield with ER (Edward VII) and crown.
Source: Historic Scotland
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