Forbes House, 77, 79, 81 High Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
Forbes House, 77, 79, 81 High Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- tangled-brass-storm
- 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
- House
- Address
- Forbes House, 77, 79, 81 High Street, Banff, AB45 1AJ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 688 640
- Coordinates
- 57.66484, -2.52361
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forbes House, located at 77, 79, and 81 High Street in Banff, dates back to 1741 and is built on an earlier site that may include older materials. This three-storey building features a dormerless attic and has three bays, with a return gable facing Boyndie Street. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins, and the ground floor has been modernized to accommodate two shops, flanking the original central door. The first-floor windows have been enlarged to bipartite style in the outer bays.
On the northern gable facing Boyndie Street, there are two first-floor windows, a single second-floor window, and a small attic window, which includes seating for two iron grill bars in the sill and lintel. The windows are fitted with plate glass and four-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames.
The building features crowstepped gables and deep roll-moulded copes on the corniced end stacks, along with cavetto skewputts, particularly on the northern side facing Boyndie Street, which displays a grotesque mask.
Local climate
Forbes House, 77, 79, 81 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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