Banff Town And Country Club, 11 Boyndie Street, Banff

This is a substantial, high-quality town house of a U-plan design, likely built in the mid to later 18th century, probably in phases. The main entrance front faces west onto Kingswell Lane, but the Boyndie Street elevation forms the south front.

The Boyndie Street elevation is three storeys and an attic, with a wide four-bay frontage. It has harled walls with painted ashlar margins. A doorway is positioned between bays three and four. The ground floor windows are smaller and slightly different in size to those above. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, with longer windows on the first floor and smaller square windows on the second, the outer windows close to the wallhead. The inner two windows are set within a central tympan gable with a small attic light and a stack at the apex.

The main entrance front, likely dating to around 1772, is harled with ashlar margins and dressings. It is three bays wide, featuring a slightly projecting polished ashlar centre with a door and a large Venetian window above, situated below a pulvinated string course and a shallow pediment which breaks the wallhead. Long windows are present in the outer bays.

The remainder of the U-plan front is of an irregular plan, with an advanced wing on the right-hand side (south) featuring a circa 1970 harled forestair leading to a first-floor entrance at the rear of Boyndie Street. Ranges of slightly varying heights extend and return to the north. All are harled with ashlar margins. Timber sash and case windows with multi-pane glazing are found throughout. The building is roofed with slate, with corniced end stacks – one notably large, serving a former kitchen hearth – and a surviving crowstepped gable on the east side. Remaining gables have flat skewbacks with moulded run-off skewputts.

The interior is accessed via a main entrance/stair hall from Kingswell Lane (likely dating to around 1772), which is linked by an arched lobby to the entrance hall accessed from the Boyndie Street doorway. Fine plaster ceilings feature moulded cornices and decorative centre detailing. A cast-iron basket grate, with a plain black painted ashlar hearth and flanking panelled doors, is located in the Boyndie Street hall, set into a stone flag floor. A wide stone cantilevered staircase rises to the first-floor landing; it has plain moulded risers with a cluster finial, mahogany ‘stick’ balusters and a polished handrail, and a mezzanine landing is lit by a long window.

The drawing room, also likely dating to around 1772, is a high-ceilinged room lit at the west by a Venetian window framed by fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals. Similar detailing is found in the swagged corniced doorpiece, which has a moulded door frame and a raised and fielded six-panelled door. A corniced and swagged chimneypiece contains a carved thistle (right) and rose (left), with a fine pale striated grey and white marble slip frame and a modern brick-lined hearth. Eighteenth-century raised and fielded panelled doors and window shutters complete the room. A former kitchen, now a TV room, retains a wide segmental-headed hearth with an ingleneuk.

High rubble walls enclose the grounds.