15, 17 Low Street, Banff
Description: 15, 17 Low Street
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22042
OS Grid Coordinates: 368970, 863870
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6636, -2.5217
Location: B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AE
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AE
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Listing Text
Dated 1745. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house with irregular ground floor. Harled, painted margins. Off-centre entrance (now shop window) with chamfered jambs and bolection moulded lintel; later narrow doorway extreme left; mid 19th century narrow 3-bay shop front right. Regular lst floor windows with 12-pane timber sash and case glazing; small centre gabled dormer with dated gable, also with 12-pane glazing; mid
19th century canted wallhead dormers in outer bays. End chimney stacks with deep roll moulded copes; flat skews with moulded run-off skewputts; slate roof; sandstone ridge.
INTERIOR: later entrance in extreme left bay leads through former kitchen to rear wing and entry to No 15. Wide segmental-headed mural hearth survives in modern passage.
References:
A E Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919), p 23-4. Banff Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF (1975).
Notes:
House built by Mr William Robinson in 1745.
Source: Historic Scotland
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