14, 16 Castle Street, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. 1 related planning application.
14, 16 Castle Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- small-rubble-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Address
- 14, 16 Castle Street, Banff, AB45 1DL
- OS grid reference
- NJ 688 640
- Coordinates
- 57.66565, -2.52332
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Castle Street in Banff is a building dated 1870, featuring two stories and an attic with five bays. The ground floor has modern shop fronts, while the upper levels showcase a dark squared whinstone façade, with rubble whinstone return gables and a rear, complemented by contrasting sandstone ashlar dressings and margins. The first-floor windows have moulded jambs, and there are three canted dormers with 4-pane sash and case glazing.
The return elevation to Castle Lane is three stories high with a dormerless attic and consists of four wide bays. It has regular plain fenestration, with horizontal 12-pane glazing on the first and second floors. There are also a pair of small round-headed attic lights in the east rear gable. The building features coped end stacks and slate roofs.
Local climate
14, 16 Castle 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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