High Street, Episcopal Rectory and Front Railings, Banff
Description: High Street, Episcopal Rectory and Front Railings
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22030
OS Grid Coordinates: 368897, 863920
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6641, -2.5230
Location: A97, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AQ
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AQ
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Listing Text
A & W Reid, Elgin, 1853. Tudor gothic. 2-storey, 3-bay house; tooled ashlar frontage, harled return gable and rear wing. Dividing string course.
Slightly off-centre advanced middle bay with recessed entrance under depressed hoodmoulded arch. 2-light window left of entrance and 3-light at right; 3 2-light lst floor windows under finialled gables; all front fenestration hoodmoulded. Multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows with pointed heads to upper sashed in ground floor windows only; deep copes to end stacks; slate roof with modern roof lights. Varied glazing to rear of house and to rear wing.
Front railings; circa 1990 cast-iron spearhead railings with urn
stiffeners front both rectory and church.
References:
BUILDER, 16 April, 1853. AE Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919), p38.
Notes:
Front railings replace those removed between l939-45 and stylistically replicate them.
Source: Historic Scotland
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