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24 High Street, Oakbank, Banff

Description: 24 High Street, Oakbank

Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 15 March 1995
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22031

OS Grid Coordinates: 368894, 863890
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6638, -2.5230

Location: A97, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AQ

Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AQ

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Listing Text

Circa 1925. 3-storey, 3-bay symmetrical block with slightly set back 2-storey, single bay entrance wing at S return gable. Coursed bull-faced rubble with liberal use of tooled ashlar dressings and margins; harled return gables and rear. Recessed centre door flanked by enlarged shop windows; long, narrow centre stair window flanked in outer bays by bipartites identical in both floors. Moulded cornice between ground and lst floors; also at wallhead below blocking course. Set back entrance wing (Oakbank) with doorway and window over.
Varied fenestration in return gables and at rear, with canted oriel
at rear of Oakbank. Plate glass glazing. Corniced wallhead stacks; piended slate roof.

Notes:
2-storey modern harled flat roofed store and garage wing at rear not included in listing.

Source: Historic Scotland

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.




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