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Latitude: 57.6652 / 57°39'54"N
Longitude: -2.5227 / 2°31'21"W
OS Eastings: 368912
OS Northings: 864048
OS Grid: NJ689640
Mapcode National: GBR N84G.F0L
Mapcode Global: WH8LW.6LYM
Plus Code: 9C9VMF8G+3W
Entry Name: 8 Old Castlegate, Banff
Listing Name: 8 Old Castlegate, St Ninians and Garden Walls
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 357530
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22070
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Banff, 8 Old Castlegate
ID on this website: 200357530
Location: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Town: Banff
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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.
Commanding site overlooking Banff Bay.
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