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Latitude: 57.6658 / 57°39'56"N
Longitude: -2.5212 / 2°31'16"W
OS Eastings: 369006
OS Northings: 864109
OS Grid: NJ690641
Mapcode National: GBR N84G.FRC
Mapcode Global: WH8LW.7LP5
Plus Code: 9C9VMF8H+8G
Entry Name: Police Station, High Shore, Banff
Listing Name: High Shore, Banff Police Station and Garden Wall
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 357458
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22009
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Banff, High Shore, Police Station
ID on this website: 200357458
Location: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Town: Banff
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Police station
Style of David Rhind, circa 1865. 3-storey, 5-bay Italianate former bank, with single storey, 2-bay wings slightly set back from main frontage. Squared dark local whinstone with generous use of ornate contrasting ashlar sandstone dressings. Centre entrance under heavy consoled balustraded balcony (fronting lst floor centre window). Corniced ground floor windows; consoled corniced 1st floor fenestration, small 2nd floor windows, all with moulded jambs and plate glass timber sash and case glazing.
Quoins; deep modillioned cornice below blocking course surmounted at intervals by urn and ball finials; corniced end and ridge stacks; slate roof.
INTERIOR: wide stair case with cast-iron barley-sugar twist balusters. Otherwise much altered to accommodate police station.
GARDEN WALLS: rubble and brick walls enclose L-shaped rear garden.
Former Commercial Bank.
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