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2 Castle Lane, Banff

Description: 2 Castle Lane

Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 21933

OS Grid Coordinates: 368896, 864083
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6656, -2.5230

Location: Old Castlegate, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1FX

Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1FX

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Listing Text

Circa 1870. 2-storey and attic, symmetrical 5-bay house abutting rear of Castle Street. Rubble, tooled red sandstone ashlar dressings and margins, harled gable to Old Castlegate and rear.
Wide centre entrance with panelled door and side lights filled with coloured glazing; single flanking ground floor window. Regular five-bay 1st floor fenestration with slightly longer windows; canted wallhead dormers in outer bays only. 4-pane glazing in frontage and in regular 2 ground and 2 1st floor gable, all windows timber sash and case.
REAR: doorway, irregular rear fenestration; single canted wallhead dormer and 1 later gabled dormer; 2 later small single storey lean-to additions.
Single coped end stack; slate roof.

Notes:
2 Castle Lane appears same build as and continuous to 12-16 Castle Street, dated 1879.

Source: Historic Scotland

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.




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