53,55 Castle Street, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House and shop.

53,55 Castle Street, Banff

WRENN ID
half-corridor-torch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
House and shop
OS grid reference
NJ 688 643
Coordinates
57.66793, -2.52385
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

53 and 55 Castle Street in Banff is a two-storey house and shop dating from the later 18th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. The building features a three-bay layout and is harled with painted margins. There is a central door, a door on the left that was formerly a window, and another door with a shop entrance on the right. The outer bays have late 19th century canted wallhead dormers. The windows are four-pane timber sash and case glazing. The building has renewed coped end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

53,55 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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