Clydesdale Bank, 49-51 Low Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Bank. 3 related planning applications.

Clydesdale Bank, 49-51 Low Street, Banff

WRENN ID
calm-tracery-burdock
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
Bank
Address
Clydesdale Bank, 49-51 Low Street, Banff, AB45 1AU
OS grid reference
NJ 689 639
Coordinates
57.66451, -2.52214
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 49-51 Low Street in Banff, is a two-storey building with an attic, designed in a symmetrical classical style by William Robertson of Elgin around 1837. The structure is constructed from tooled sandstone ashlar, featuring polished ashlar dressings. The doorways are set back under decoratively glazed fanlights and are framed by simple, shallow pedimented doorpieces with lugged and moulded surrounds. Similar pediments are found above paired central windows, which have raised margins. On the first floor, there are four windows that sit beneath bracketed cornices, below a narrow pulvinated string course, frieze, and wallhead cornice. The building has a plain blocking course that is raised at the center, flanked by scroll consoles. Additionally, there are two modern box dormers on the slate roof.

Local climate

Clydesdale Bank, 49-51 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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