34 Low Street, Townhouse, Banff
Description: 34 Low Street, Townhouse
Category: A
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22063
OS Grid Coordinates: 368988, 863963
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6645, -2.5214
Location: 28 B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AN
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AN
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Listing Text
James Reid, 'squarewright', 1796. Plain 3-storey and dormerless
attic, regular 5-bay frontage; ashlar, rusticated at ground floor,
polished ashlar dressings, harled return gables and rear.
Double-leaf panelled door to centre entrance; 12-pane glazing in
timber sash and case windows. Rusticated quoins; deep moulded eaves cornice.
Moulded cornices to end and rear stacks; gabled platform slate
roof to front block, plain gable at rear.
INTERIOR: wide cantilevered stone staircase with moulded underside; plain handrail and plain iron balusters. Simple plaster cornice in former lst floor former drawing room; some 6-panel raised and fielded doors survive.
References:
Town Council Minutes, 30 January, l798. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (l836), pp 34-5. Banff Preservation Society, ROYAL AND ANCIENT BANFF
(1975).
Notes:
When built the Town House accommodated 'a hall, large drawing room, Town-council chamber, sheriff clerks' offices and prison. The staircase and landings are spacious.' The building now serves as offices and larger rooms are all subdivided. Town House fronted by renewed paved 'plainstones' with renewed mercat cross.
Source: Historic Scotland
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