23 Low Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 1 related planning application.
23 Low Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- distant-window-pigeon
- 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
- House
- Address
- 23 Low Street, Banff, AB45 1AU
- OS grid reference
- NJ 689 638
- Coordinates
- 57.66375, -2.52188
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
23 Low Street in Banff is a house built between 1820 and 1830, featuring three storeys and an attic, with a three-bay design. The ground floor has later shop fronts, while a wing extends to the rear at No 25. The main façade is harled, with harl-pointed rubble return gables and a rear section. The building has ashlar margins and dressings, which are painted on the street-facing side.
The ground floor has been largely altered by the addition of shop windows and an entrance, although some original rustication remains, also painted. There is an early 20th-century bracketed fascia board that spans the full width of the building.
The first and second floors have regular window arrangements, with the first-floor windows featuring cornices and moulded jambs, while the second-floor windows are smaller and plain. The outer bays have later 19th-century canted wallhead dormers, with one dormer located at the rear. The glazing includes plate glass in the shopfront, four-pane windows in the dormers, and 12-pane windows at the rear, all of which are timber sash and case.
The building has a deep moulded wallhead cornice, coped end stacks, and a slate roof.
At the rear, 25 Low Street is a two-storey block connected to the main house, constructed from harl-pointed rubble, featuring a wallhead stack and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
23 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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