Graham (Banff) Ltd, 16-18 Carmelite Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Former police station. 6 related planning applications.

Graham (Banff) Ltd, 16-18 Carmelite Street, Banff

WRENN ID
gilded-crypt-larch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Former police station
Address
Graham (Banff) Ltd, 16-18 Carmelite Street, Banff, AB45 1AF
OS grid reference
NJ 690 639
Coordinates
57.66463, -2.52074
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Graham (Banff) Ltd is a mid-19th century building designed in the style of A & W. Reid from Elgin. This former police station is two stories high with a six-bay facade, featuring a regular five-bay arrangement where the leftmost bay is slightly set back. The exterior is made of grey granite ashlar. The central door is flanked by round-headed windows, while the outer west bay has a round-headed pend closed by a double leaf plank door. The outer right bay features a slightly recessed arcade with a window. The first floor has regular fenestration with timber sash and case windows that have four-pane glazing. The building is adorned with quoins, a wallhead cornice, and a blocking course that is raised in the center of the principal five-bay facade, topped with a slate roof.

At the eastern return gable, there is a round-headed entrance with cast-iron spearhead double gates, and a re-set plaque above that is dated 1675.

The rear of the building includes a two-story and attic residential wing that has two bays and is harled with ashlar margins. There is a glazed entrance porch from around 1900 that features Art Nouveau colored lights. This section has a single flanking window, a single first-floor window, and a canted dormer with four- and twelve-pane glazing. It also has corniced stacks and a slate roof.

Additionally, there is a long single-story and attic store at the rear, which has an entrance, small first-floor windows, a central ridge stack, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Graham (Banff) Ltd, 16-18 Carmelite 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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