1 High Street, Banff
Description: 1 High Street
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22015
OS Grid Coordinates: 368859, 863782
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6628, -2.5236
Location: Institution Terrace, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AP
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AP
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Listing Text
Dated 1764. 3-storey, symmetrical 3-bay house with 2-storey and attic, single bay return wing to Institution Road. Squared mixed rubble, painted ashlar margins and dressings; harled return gable and wing. Centre entrance with moulded lugged and corniced doorpiece, each spandrel with single carved rosette. Longer windows in lst floor, small in 2nd floor; single ground and later lst floor window in return gable. 4-pane glazing in ground, 2nd floor and return gable windows, 12-pane in lst floor, all timber sash and case windows.
Eaves cornice; margined end stacks; slate roof; sandstone ridge.
Flat skews with moulded and dated skewputt.
INTERIOR: narrow curved staircase; original moulded cornice in lst floor parlour (SE) with replacement section above gable window; original plain ashlar chimneypiece in lst room (NE).
References:
Banff Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF (1975).
Notes:
19th century tooled margins on the lst floor gable parlour window and the replaced ceiling moulding suggest that either the window here was slapped in mid l9th century or replaced a former window. The 18th century lst floor bedroom chimneypiece, with curved lintel, is of a type common to the area.
Source: Historic Scotland
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