30 (and south wing of 32), High Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
30 (and south wing of 32), High Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- under-slate-rain
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 30 (and south wing of 32), High Street, Banff, AB45 1AE
- OS grid reference
- NJ 688 639
- Coordinates
- 57.66427, -2.52301
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
30 and the south wing of 32 High Street in Banff are notable buildings with distinct architectural features. No 32, dating from the later 18th century, originally served as a drawing room wing associated with the County Hotel. It has a single storey over a raised basement at the rear, with a front made of tooled ashlar and painted ashlar margins, while the rear and return gable are harled. The side entrance is located in a quadrant passage, and there is an enlarged front window designed as a bipartite. The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames, and the building has a piended slate roof with a wallhead stack.
No 30, built in the mid to later 19th century, is linked to No 32 and also features a single storey over a raised basement. It has a two-bay street frontage with an entrance in the north gable flanked by windows. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins, and like No 32, it has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, as well as end stacks and a slate roof.
The garden area is enclosed by renewed cast-iron spearhead railings with urn stiffeners, separating the garden from the hotel frontage. A low coped rubble wall fronts both Nos 30 and 32 from the street, with a pair of plain ashlar gatepiers featuring shallow pyramidal caps flanking the pedestrian entry.
Inside, Nos 30 and 32 have been combined into a single dwelling. The drawing room in No 32 boasts a coved ceiling adorned with a decorative plaster frieze and a centre rose.
Local climate
30 (and south wing of 32), High 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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