Low Street, Collie Lodge with Lamp Standards, Banff
Description: Low Street, Collie Lodge with Lamp Standards
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22038
OS Grid Coordinates: 368929, 863785
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6629, -2.5224
Location: 1 Back Path, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AP
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AP
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Listing Text
Style of William Robertson, Elgin, 1836. Single storey 3-bay former gate lodge to Duff House. Tooled and polished ashlar sandstone. Pedimented tetrastyle fluted Greek doric portico; centre double-leaf panelled door with original decorative fanlight; flanking windows with later glazing. Set back return gables each with angle pilasters and centre window. Moulded eaves cornice above deep frieze and eaves course. Rear wallhead stack; shallow piended slate roof.
LAMP STANDARDS: pair freestanding squat ashlar cast-iron lamp standards on battered panelled ashlar plinths.
References:
Banff Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF (1975).
Notes:
Though documentary proof has not yet been established, Collie Lodge with flanking lamp standard, was certainly designed by William Robertson of Elgin, at the same time that he was designing Wilson's Academy (Banff Primary School), also fronted by similar stands. The lodge is similar to the Boat of Brig tollhouse (W Robertson, 1830) while the lamp standards are similar to those illustrated in Robertson's drawings for the Elgin Courthouse, 1837 (dem). The lodge once fronted Collie Street, now absorbed into St Mary's car park.
Source: Historic Scotland
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