The Cottage, High Street, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage, High Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-corner-primrose
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 689 638
- Coordinates
- 57.66345, -2.52285
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cottage on High Street in Banff is a former carriage house dating from the 18th to early 19th century, which was converted into a dwelling between 1969 and 1971 by architect J J Meldrum from Banff. It is a single-storey and attic, three-bay cottage that features harled walls with ashlar margins. The rear west elevation has a central door, while the east front has enlarged windows flanking a glazed garden door. The cottage includes two swept dormers and multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. It also has coped end stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
The Cottage, High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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