The Vaults, Harbour Place, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Warehouse, dwelling.
The Vaults, Harbour Place, Banff
- WRENN ID
- seventh-bastion-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Warehouse, dwelling
- OS grid reference
- NJ 689 643
- Coordinates
- 57.66816, -2.52238
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Vaults, located at Harbour Place in Banff, is an early 19th-century building that was originally a warehouse and converted into a dwelling around 1978. It stands as a tall, two-storey structure with four bays, built against the slope and accessible from Sheriffs Brae. The front facing the Quayside features a dark rubble stone finish, while the rest of the building has modern harl.
On the ground floor, there are two tall pointed-headed arched entrances, and the first floor has a smaller pattern of four similarly shaped windows, along with a single pointed-headed window in the north return gable. All windows have modern timber frames and multi-pane glazing. The entrance to the dwelling is located on the raised ground floor from Sheriffs Brae, featuring a modern glazed entrance and significantly enlarged plate glass windows. The roof is covered with pantiles.
Local climate
The Vaults, Harbour Place, Banff receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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