1 Old Market Place, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
1 Old Market Place, Banff
- WRENN ID
- stranded-column-magpie
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NJ 691 639
- Coordinates
- 57.66459, -2.51894
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Old Market Place in Banff is a house dating from around 1800. It is two stories tall and has three bays, with a rear wing that forms an L-shape. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins and dressings. The front features a central door with a simple Gibbsian doorpiece, a panelled door, and small windows on either side. The first floor has three tall windows, with four-pane glazing on the ground floor and eight-pane glazing in the first floor's timber sash and case windows. The house has wallhead gable end stacks and a piended slate roof.
The rear wing is also two stories and has three bays, with an end stack. The front wall includes square painted ashlar gatepiers, each featuring a shallow stringcourse and a shallow corniced cap that has the base of an iron lampholder. There is a coped front wall, and a high wall separates the house from Reid Street.
Local climate
1 Old Market 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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