4, 5 Back Path, 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.
4, 5 Back Path, Banff
- WRENN ID
- drifting-latch-blackthorn
- 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
- 4, 5 Back Path, Banff, AB45 1AR
- OS grid reference
- NJ 689 638
- Coordinates
- 57.66334, -2.52219
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 and 5 Back Path in Banff is a house dating from around 1840. It is two stories with an attic over a basement and features three bays, situated on a steeply sloping site. There is a wide single-storey gabled addition on the west side. The exterior is harled with tooled ashlar margins. The central doorway is supported by consoles, and there are tripartite windows on the ground and first floors in the outer west bay. The house has two late 19th-century canted dormers, and the windows are timber sash and case with multi-pane glazing, while the dormers have plate glass and 4-pane glazing. The west wing includes a side entrance and a central window with an apron and painted margins, along with a bandcourse. The house has end stacks and slate roofs, and there is a high rubble garden wall surrounding the property.
Local climate
4, 5 Back Path, 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 EPC on record for this property
- 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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