5 High Street, Banff
Description: 5 High Street
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22017
OS Grid Coordinates: 368856, 863809
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6631, -2.5236
Location: 1 Institution Terrace, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AP
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AP
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Listing Text
Circa 1720-30. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay house. Harled, painted ashlar margins. Centre door masked by late 19th century rustic bargeboarded porch; narrow windows, paired in outer bays. Late 19th century canted wallhead dormers in outer bays; plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, 4-pane in dormers.
Corniced end stacks; slate roof; pottery ridge.
INTERIOR: stone wheel stair with moulded risers and chamfered newel post rises full height; heavy moulded cornice in lst floor landing. No other original features survive.
References:
A E Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919), p 40. Banff Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF (1975).
Notes:
5 High Street originally town house of Lord Banff.
Source: Historic Scotland
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