9 High Shore, Fernlee and Garden Walls, Banff
Description: 9 High Shore, Fernlee and Garden Walls
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22007
OS Grid Coordinates: 368988, 864041
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6652, -2.5214
Location: 4 Water Path, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AJ
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AJ
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Listing Text
Mid 18th century, advanced wing probably circa 1790. L-plan with narrow gable to street and wide garden (W) elevation. Harled, painted ashlar margins, some chamfered. Doorway in re-entrant angle and also in centre of S elevation of front wing. Later l9th century canted oriel in centre lst floor street gable above canted greenhouse.
2-storey, 5-bay garden elevation (W) with centre lst floor entrance reached by cast-iron forestair with decorative balustade.
Varied glazing, plate glass, 4- and 12-pane timber sash and case.
Flat skews with run-off skewputts; slate roofs; 19th century coped end rubble stacks. Garage slapped in ground floor to left of re-entrant doorway.
GARDEN WALLS: circa 1790. High rubble walls enclose rear garden.
References:
THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1797, vol xx, Witherington and Grant ed., vol xvi, 1982), p 31.
Notes:
Former Church of Scotland parish manse.
Source: Historic Scotland
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