Elm Bank, 2 Castle Lane, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
Elm Bank, 2 Castle Lane, Banff
- WRENN ID
- long-soffit-vetch
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NJ 688 640
- Coordinates
- 57.66553, -2.52301
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Elm Bank, located at 2 Castle Lane in Banff, is a house built around 1870. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features a symmetrical five-bay design, positioned at the rear of Castle Street. The structure is constructed of rubble with tooled red sandstone ashlar dressings and margins, and has a harled gable facing Old Castlegate and the rear.
The house has a wide central entrance that includes a panelled door with sidelights filled with coloured glazing. There is a single window on either side of the entrance at ground level. The first floor has a regular arrangement of five bays with slightly longer windows. The outer bays feature canted wallhead dormers. All windows, including those on the front and in the gables, are timber sash and case with 4-pane glazing.
At the rear, there is a doorway and an irregular arrangement of windows. This side includes a single canted wallhead dormer and one later gabled dormer, along with two later small single-storey lean-to additions. The house has a single coped end stack and a slate roof.
Local climate
Elm Bank, 2 Castle Lane, 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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