Seafield Street, Ymca Hall, Banff
Description: Seafield Street, Ymca Hall
Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 15 March 1995
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22092
OS Grid Coordinates: 368807, 864252
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6671, -2.5245
Location: Stuart Lane, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1DS
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1DS
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Listing Text
James Duncan, architect, Turriff, dated 1866. Single storey, wide 3-bay street frontage with hall and dwelling at rear (facing Stuart Lane). Dark local whinstone frontage with painted ashlar dressings, harled rear with ashlar margins.
Centre consoled corniced entrance in main street frontage with double-leaf panelled door; flanking consoled corniced tripartites;
plate glass and 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Eaves band
and eaves cornice with blocking course raised and shaped in centre with datestone. Corniced end stacks; slate roof.
Hall: 4-bay frontage to Stuart Lane; hall with centre door below light flanked by windows; additional entrance extreme N to dwelling house at end of gable. 12-pane glazing to hall; 3 triangular roof vents. End stack; slate roof.
References:
BANFFSHIRE JOURNAL, 24 April, 1866. Report of proposed hall.
Notes:
Inscribed plaque over door reads 'Young Men's Christian Association 1866'. Building estimate of '532 reported in BANFFSHIRE JOURNAL.
Source: Historic Scotland
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