Charles Michie Chemists, 67-69 High Street, Banchory is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1992. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Charles Michie Chemists, 67-69 High Street, Banchory
- WRENN ID
- old-ember-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1992
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Charles Michie Chemists, 67-69 High Street, Banchory, AB31 5TJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 696 957
- Coordinates
- 57.05141, -2.50253
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Charles Michie Chemists, located at 67-69 High Street in Banchory, is a building from the mid to late 19th century. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring three regular bays. The structure is made of granite rubble with pinnings, and it has an ashlar eaves band. The slate roof is adorned with a pair of canted dormers that are widely spaced over the outer bays, and it has dentilled eaves. There is a small contemporary skylight at the center and ashlar skews with a red tiled ridge. The original glazing consists of 4-pane sash and case windows on the first floor and in the attic.
The shopfront, dating from around 1880 to 1900, features a pair of symmetrically arranged entrances that are set back between picture windows. These windows have a granite ashlar base course and are supported by narrow cast-iron columns with small Ionic style capitals at the corners. The glazing is curved at the entrance splays. Above the shopfront, there is a timber frieze with a dentilled cornice and elaborate consoles, although the center console has been removed. Additionally, there is a 19th-century gilded cast-iron pharmacist shop sign featuring a mortar and pestle, which is canted out on a decorative bracket.
Local climate
Charles Michie Chemists, 67-69 High Street, Banchory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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
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- 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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