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23, 25 Castle Street, Banff

Description: 23, 25 Castle Street

Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 21938

OS Grid Coordinates: 368848, 864163
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6663, -2.5238

Location: A97, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1EA

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

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Listing Text

1830-40. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house fronting street. Dark
square whinstone frontage, painted tooled and polished ashlar dressings, rubble whinstone return gables. Centre pilastered and
corniced entrance; additional doorway in extreme left (SE) bay. Panelled aprons to ground floor windows; lst floor windows linked by wide bandcourse; single ground and lst floor window in return N gable. Late 19th century canted wallhead dormers in outer bays. Modern 2-pane glazing in ground floor windows, 12-pane in lst floor and plate glass and 4-pane in dormers. Deep moulded wallhead cornice; coped end stacks; flat skewputs. slate roof.
INTERIOR: simple moulded friezes in former dining room and hall. Fine decorative cast-iron balusters with anthemion design to staircase between ground and lst floors, simpler design to attic stair.

Source: Historic Scotland

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




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