Town House, 34 Low Street, Banff is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Townhouse. 7 related planning applications.

Town House, 34 Low Street, Banff

WRENN ID
ragged-stair-smoke
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Townhouse
Address
Town House, 34 Low Street, Banff, AB45 1AY
OS grid reference
NJ 689 639
Coordinates
57.66446, -2.52146
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Town House at 34 Low Street in Banff was built in 1796 by James Reid, a squarewright. This plain three-storey building features a dormerless attic and has a regular five-bay frontage. The exterior is made of ashlar stone, with the ground floor rusticated and polished ashlar dressings. The return gables and rear are harled.

The entrance has a double-leaf panelled door at the center, and the windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The building has rusticated quoins and a deep moulded eaves cornice. There are moulded cornices on the end and rear stacks, and the front block has a gabled platform slate roof, while the rear has a plain gable.

Inside, there is a wide cantilevered stone staircase with a moulded underside, a plain handrail, and plain iron balusters. The former first-floor drawing room features a simple plaster cornice, and some six-panel raised and fielded doors are still intact.

Local climate

Town House, 34 Low 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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