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3 High Shore, Banff

Description: 3 High Shore

Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22005

OS Grid Coordinates: 369011, 864018
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6650, -2.5211

Location: High Shore, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AD

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

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Listing Text

Dated 1740. 3-storey, 3-bay house with symmetrical frontage. Harled, tooled ashlar margins. Centre corniced door with shouldered lintel with carved grotesque head and heavily quoined jambs. Longer 1st floor windows. 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Single end stack: slate roof; flat skews with run-off skewputts.
2-storey wings to rear.
INTERIOR: some original cornices and panelled doors.

References:
A E Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919), p 31.

Notes:
Doorpiece cornice soffit inscribed:- TF 1740 ES. TF probably stands for Thomas Forbes, silversmith in Banff. B Group with Old St Mary's Burial Ground and Nos 1 and 5 High Shore.

Source: Historic Scotland

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



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