47 Low Street, Banff

47 Low Street in Banff is a building designed by R G Wilson of Aberdeen, dating from around 1900. It features two storeys and an attic with a five-bay front that is slightly asymmetrical. The facade is constructed from grey granite ashlar with contrasting ashlar sandstone dressings, showcasing a mix of long and short work. The entrance is wide and segmental-headed, slightly off-centre, with a stylised keystone and set back paired doors. The outer bays contain shops with original fascia boards that are connected to the doorpiece by a deep moulded cornice that ends in chunky consoles.

On the first floor, there are bipartite windows in bays 1, 2, 4, and 5, which are topped with segmental-headed hoodmoulds and a continuous moulded and bracketed stringcourse. The second floor has closely paired segmental-headed bipartites beneath a linked segmental-headed hoodmould, with a pair of single segmental-headed windows in the centre. All the second-floor windows have blocked sills.

The attic features paired segmental-headed dormers in the outer bays and a substantial centre wallhead gable divided into four shallow stages by moulded string courses, each decreasing in width and flanked by consoles. There is a small segmental-headed window and a deep cornice above the stack, which has three chimney cans. The building retains its original glazing pattern, with multi-pane glazing in the upper lights of timber sash and case windows. The flat skews end in stylised skewputts, which are detailed as brackets elsewhere, and there are corniced end stacks along with a slated mansard roof. The original rainwater goods are in place, with downpipes designed to accommodate the elongated skewputts.

At the rear, there are two piended dormers, likely from around 1900, and two projecting gabled rear wings, with the northern wing built from rubble and the southern wing harled with ashlar margins. Both wings have end stacks and slate roofs. The rear garden is enclosed by rubble walls.