83 Castle Street Old Brewery, Banff
Description: 83 Castle Street Old Brewery
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 21952
OS Grid Coordinates: 368835, 864532
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6696, -2.5241
Location: A97, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1JD
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1JD
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Listing Text
Mid 18th century, perhaps incorporating earlier work. Substantial 3-storey L-plan range with return elevation to Battery Green; 17 bays to Castle Street (some openings blocked) with two tall round-headed keystoned arches with blocked imposts. Harled rubble, ashlar margins. Mainly 4-pane glazing in fixed timber lights in street frontage, varied elsewhere; later shop with enlarged window slapped between round-headed pend archways.
Irregular elevation to Battery Green, probably of different builds. Mainly rubble interior elevations with projecting additions and some alteration. Slate roofs.
References:
THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1797, Witherington and Grant edition, vol xvi 1982), p 53. James Imlach, HISTORY OF BANFF (1868), p79. Banff
Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF (1975).
Notes:
Substantial building, probably originally a warehouse, being close to harbour. Cumberland's troops said to have been lodged in premises after the 1745 uprising. Glazed lights and windows probably replaced original shutters.
Source: Historic Scotland
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