Jail Walls, St Catherine Street, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1995. Wall.
Jail Walls, St Catherine Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- tangled-string-fen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1995
- Type
- Wall
- OS grid reference
- NJ 687 643
- Coordinates
- 57.66768, -2.52609
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The jail walls on St Catherine Street in Banff date from the early to mid 19th century. They consist of a high coped rubble wall that runs along St Catherine Street and ends in a rectangular two-stage angle tower at the corner of Reidhaven Street. A similar tower faces Reidhaven Street, with a length of the rear wall running parallel to St Catherine Street.
Each rubble tower features tooled ashlar margins and dressings, and both are two stages high with dummy slits and crenellated wallheads.
Local climate
Jail Walls, St Catherine 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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