Cape House, 21 Seafield Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1995. House. 2 related planning applications.

Cape House, 21 Seafield Street, Banff

WRENN ID
crooked-bonework-onyx
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 March 1995
Type
House
Address
Cape House, 21 Seafield Street, Banff, AB45 1ED
OS grid reference
NJ 687 642
Coordinates
57.66695, -2.5259
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cape House, located at 21 Seafield Street in Banff, was built between 1860 and 1870. It is a substantial two-storey and attic house with three bays, constructed from dark whinstone with contrasting sandstone dressings and margins. The gables are harled with ashlar margins.

The main entrance features a centre doorpiece with pilasters and a cornice, leading to a panelled door. On either side of the entrance are corniced bipartite windows with moulded jambs, and the first floor has three windows with similar moulding on their jambs. The return gable facing Reidhaven Street includes two ground floor and two first floor windows. The house also has two canted wallhead dormers and four-pane timber sash and case glazing. The roof is slate, and there are coped end stacks.

Surrounding the rear garden are harled rubble walls.

Local climate

Cape House, 21 Seafield 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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