Library And Museum, High Street, Banff

The Library and Museum on High Street in Banff was designed by architect C W Cosser in 1902. It is a tall, austere two-storey building with a symmetrical five-bay front. The structure is made of dark whinstone rubble, accented with contrasting tooled ashlar sandstone dressings and margins. The entrance features a slightly advanced corniced doorpiece with a keystoned round-headed doorway, a plaque, and a datestone.

The building has square-headed windows with simple aprons, which are connected between the ground and first floor by a deep corniced bandcourse that extends across the north gable. The windows are fitted with 2-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. A deep, shallow wallhead cornice is adorned with decorative cast-iron brackets that support a moulded cast-iron rhone, which projects as a cornice. The original downpipes feature an embossed floral design on the rainwater heads. Additionally, there is a long stair window at the rear, a wallhead corniced stack, and a shallow piended slate roof.