8 Old Castlegate, St Ninians and Garden Walls, Banff
Description: 8 Old Castlegate, St Ninians and Garden Walls
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22070
OS Grid Coordinates: 368912, 864048
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6652, -2.5227
Location: Old Castlegate, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1DY
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1DY
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Listing Text
Circa 1840-50. Tall 3-storey and attic, 3-bay house set back from street, the front garden enclosed by high wall. Harled, painted ashlar margins.
Centre entrance with plain corniced doorpiece. Regular fenestration with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Later canted wallhead dormers in outer bays with multi-pane glazing; 2 modern box dormers to E (rear). Narrow 2-storey extension at S gable with garden entrance in ground floor and single, pitch-roofed glazed sunroom at lst floor level.
Corniced and margined end stacks; slate roof.
INTERIOR: small entrance hall with paired Ionic marbled screen columns; wide staircase with decorative cast-iron balustrade; simpler cast-iron balustrade to 2nd floor.
lst floor drawing-room with deep moulded skirting boards with beaded key-pattern; later Georgian style ceiling plaster ornamentation and frieze; panelled doors.
GARDEN WALLS: front garden screen from road by high, coped harled rubble wall with plain consoled doorpiece. Modern garage entrance slapped to right. Rubble garden walls enclose rear garden.
Notes:
Commanding site overlooking Banff Bay.
Source: Historic Scotland
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