37 Castle Street, Seafield House, Banff
Description: 37 Castle Street, Seafield House
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 21942
OS Grid Coordinates: 368835, 864241
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6670, -2.5240
Location: Seafield Street, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1DS
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1DS
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Listing Text
Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, 1853-4. 2-storey over raised basement, 5-bay frontage to Castle Street with return gable and wing to Seafield Street. Dark local whinstone with contrasting painted ashlar dressings and margins. Centre double-columned Roman doric portico with modillioned and balustraded cornice as balcony. Consoled, corniced and aproned flanking windows; smaller 1st floor fenestration with moulded jambs. Round-headed tripartite in return gable with 2 windows above facing Seafield Street. Also to Seafield Street, slightly set-back 2-
storey 3-bay contemporary house with consoled pedimented centre doorway (now blocked as window) flanking corniced windows and lst floor fenestration as elsewhere in building. 4-pane sash and case glazing in ground floor windows, 8-pane in lst floor. Modillioned cornice; corniced end and ridge stacks; shallow piended slate roofs.
INTERIOR: Roman doric columned screen to stairwell; decorative cast-iron balusters with ornate foliage design. Former drawing room (right) with decorative plaster cornice and grey and white marble chimneypiece; similar ceiling cornice left of entrance but room divided as offices.
References:
ABERDEEN JOURNAL, Feb 23, 1853; advertisement for tenders. BUILDER, Nov 18, 1854.
Notes:
Currently (1994) serving as office accommodation. Former stables to rear not included in listing.
Source: Historic Scotland
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