55, 57 Low Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.

55, 57 Low Street, Banff

WRENN ID
hidden-moat-pigeon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
House, shop
Address
55, 57 Low Street, Banff, AB45 1AU
OS grid reference
NJ 689 639
Coordinates
57.66477, -2.52183
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

55 and 57 Low Street in Banff is a mid to later 19th century, two-storey and attic building that features a five-bay design, serving as both a house and a shop. The front is made of squared, tooled granite with harled return gables and a harled rear.

The central entrance has a wide corniced doorpiece with roll-moulded jambs, which leads to the shop. The flanking windows have been enlarged, and there is a small window in the outer bay on the west side, which was formerly a doorway. On the east side, there is a doorway with a glazed fanlight. The first floor has three regularly spaced windows, each with 12-pane timber sash and case glazing, and there is a single later pedimented dormer above.

The building features a deep moulded wallhead cornice, flat skews, and moulded copes on the end stacks, all topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

55, 57 Low Street, 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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