2 Old Castlegate, Banff

2 Old Castlegate in Banff is a substantial house built in the mid-18th century, with later alterations and additions. It is a three-storey, wide, three-bay structure that faces the street, featuring later rear wings that form a U-plan. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins, which are chamfered in the early, main part of the house.

The entrance is centrally located and features a recessed depressed arch with sidelights and a double-leaf panelled door. The ground floor has almost square windows, while the outer first-floor bays contain wide tripartite windows, with the wide side lights likely added in the early 19th century. The second floor has regular fenestration, with multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows.

At the rear, there is a projecting three-storey, three-bay wing, probably added around 1800, which has paired ground, first, and attic windows facing the gable. A 20th-century two-storey wing also projects at the rear, forming a U-plan court, with access to the first floor via an external brick stair. The house features coped end margined stacks, although the one at the northwest gable apex is missing, and it has slate roofs.

Inside, the house has been much altered, with rooms divided. There is a low central entrance hall, and the first-floor dining room includes a simple plaster cornice and a segmental-headed buffet alcove, with reeded detailing on the inner face of the pilastered window dividers. The drawing room in the circa 1800 wing has later beaded panelling on the window shutters and door, a plain moulded and painted wooden chimneypiece, and a simple plaster ceiling frieze. The staircase, located in the circa 1800 wing against the rear wall of the older part of the house, is wide with turned balusters and rises the full height of the building. Some 18th-century raised and fielded six-panel doors remain, but the rest of the interior has been significantly altered and subdivided.

The rear garden is enclosed by brick walls, some of which have been renewed with concrete blocks.