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20, 22 Low Street, Banff

Description: 20, 22 Low Street

Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22057

OS Grid Coordinates: 368989, 863884
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6638, -2.5214

Location: B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AE

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

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Listing Text

Circa 1800. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house with modern shopfronts in ground floor. Mixed striated squared tooled rubble, painted tooled and polished ashlar dressings, channelled quoins. Ground floor probably designed as alternate window/door/window/door/window; doorway to No 20 with original early l9th century fanlight. Regular lst floor fenestration and 3 dormers, re-modelled and heightened in later l9th century, break wallhead; all 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case
windows. Channelled quoins terminate at bandcourse level, bandcourse
dividing lst and attic levels. Deep moulded wallhead cornice;
corniced end stacks; run-off skewputts; slate roof.

Notes:
Interesting striated stone frontage.

Source: Historic Scotland

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




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