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Town Hall, 17 Shore Street, Macduff

A Category B Listed Building in Macduff, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6696 / 57°40'10"N

Longitude: -2.4984 / 2°29'54"W

OS Eastings: 370368

OS Northings: 864521

OS Grid: NJ703645

Mapcode National: GBR N86G.068

Mapcode Global: WH8LW.LHH8

Plus Code: 9C9VMG92+RJ

Entry Name: Town Hall, 17 Shore Street, Macduff

Listing Name: 17 Shore Street, Town Hall

Listing Date: 22 February 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 382770

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37634

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Macduff, 17 Shore Street, Town Hall

ID on this website: 200382770

Location: Macduff

County: Aberdeenshire

Town: Macduff

Electoral Ward: Troup

Traditional County: Banffshire

Tagged with: Hall

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Description

Pirie and Clyne, Aberdeen, dated 1884. Baronial town hall.
2-storey and attic, wide 3-bay frontage to Shore Street;
single storey over raised basement wing projects at rear
terminating at Church Street rear entrance gable. Tooled dark
whinstone, contrasting bullfaced and polished ashlar
dressings, rubble flanks and rear.
Slightly advanced centre bay with deep battered bullfaced
base course; rounded-headed centre keystoned entrance with
double-leaf panelled doors; paired flanking round-headed and
keystoned windows. Centre bay rises well above wallhead as
ornately decorative gable flanked by narrow conical roofed
bartizans; gable lit by lunette; centre blind occulus and
finialled pediment carved with knight on horseback (after
manner of that carved on Burgh Cross); gabled wallhead
dormers in outer bays. Single wide canted oriel in 1st floor
outer bays; 2 and 3-pane glazing.
Tall coped end stacks; slate roof.
Rear 6-bay range with simple fenestration; narrow 3-bay gable
with centre entrance and piended slate roof.

Statement of Interest

Town Hall opened in 1885.

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