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14 Old Castlegate and Garden Walls, Banff

Description: 14 Old Castlegate and Garden Walls

Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22071

OS Grid Coordinates: 368915, 864065
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6654, -2.5227

Location: 14 Old Castlegate, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1DY

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

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Listing Text

Mid 18th century house fronting parallel earlier range.
FRONT BLOCK: dated 1759. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay street frontage; harled with painted ashlar margins. Centre entrance; flanking windows with 12-pane glazing; regular lst floor fenestration with 12-pane lying-pane glazing; late l9th century canted wallhead dormers in outer bays with plate glass and 4-pane glazing; all windows timber sash and case. Flat skews with moulded run-off skewputts; moulded copes to
end stacks; slate roof.
REAR BLOCK: much altered early 18th century single storey over raised basement dwelling linked to later front block. Harled rubble, some painted ashlar margins. Basement doorway in N gable, lst floor N gable window. E frontage masked by substantial modern bay windows with piended roofs; mullioned and transomed lights, 4 light to right (NE) and 3-light over single basement window at left (SE).
Single early l8th century apex chimney stack at N gable; slate
roof.
GARDEN WALLS: rear garden enclosed with rubble walls.

Source: Historic Scotland

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