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Low Street, Former New Market Archway, Banff

Description: Low Street, Former New Market Archway

Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22052

OS Grid Coordinates: 368977, 863993
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6647, -2.5216

Location: B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AL

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

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Listing Text

Dated 1831 style of William Robertson, architect, Elgin. Tall round-headed archway; rusticated ashlar with polished ashlar flanking pedestrian entrances (blocked left), harled rear. Corniced blocked wallhead to main arch with plain blocking course to flanking walls. Inscribed plaque above pedestrian entrance (right).

References:
A E Mahood, BANFF AND DISTRICT (1919), p 24.

Notes:
Market place established in Low Street after the flooding of the old market at the foot of Carmelite Street in l829.

Source: Historic Scotland

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



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