1 High Shore, Banff

1 High Shore in Banff is a house dated 1675, featuring three storeys and three bays, along with two return bays facing Carmelite Street. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins and dressings. The central entrance door is flanked by a single window, while the first floor has three windows and two shallow piended dormers breaking the wallhead. The return gable includes a single window on the ground and first floors, two windows on the second floor, and a small attic light.

The ground floor has a rounded angle at the street, and at the first floor, it is corbelled out to a square shape, which displays a small decorative datestone. This section further projects as a round bartizan that rises above the wallhead, culminating in a conical roof with three very small windows near the eaves. The rear of the house has a three-bay layout and features a substantial four-storey rubble stair tower with chamfered angles, which is also corbelled out to a square to form a cap house on the fourth storey. The stair tower has small windows, paired in the west-facing gable of the cap house, and an apex stack.

There is a doorway at the rear of the house that leads to a small courtyard. The windows are timber sash and case with multi-pane glazing, and the house has substantial coped end stacks. The southeast gable is crowstepped, while the other gables have flat skews. The roof is covered with slate and includes rooflights.