21 High Shore, Shore House and Garden Walls, Banff
Description: 21 High Shore, Shore House and Garden Walls
Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22010
OS Grid Coordinates: 369008, 864128
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6660, -2.5211
Location: High Shore, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1FE
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1FE
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Listing Text
Mid 18th century with many later alterations. 3-storey and attic house over raised basement, 3 wide bays. Harled, painted ashlar margins. Centre entrance masked by portico formed by balcony supported by pair slender cast-iron columns approached by shallow flight of steps with plain, later iron handrail. Much altered fenestration; bipartite in ground floor left and in outer bays of lst floor (taller windows). 2nd floor windows raised to break wallhead; 2 box dormers. Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Corniced end stacks; slate roof.
REAR: similar alteration to rear windows.
GARDEN WALL: rear garden enclosed by high rubble garden wall.
References:
A E Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919).
Notes:
Shore House divided as flats.
Mahood records that the house was in existence l745 and a refuge after the Battle of Culloden. Also that there was a hall added to the exterior and 'on two sides ....outside stone stairs to the upper rooms'; the inner court was reached through a 'round-headed archway'.
Source: Historic Scotland
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