Castle Bar, 47 Castle Street, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Commercial.
Castle Bar, 47 Castle Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- blind-sentry-bone
- 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
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- NJ 688 642
- Coordinates
- 57.66743, -2.52395
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castle Bar, located at 47 Castle Street in Banff, is a building from the mid to late 19th century. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features a five-bay range. The exterior is constructed of dark squared local whinstone, with tooled granite ashlar dressings. The central entrance, which has been blocked off, originally featured a pilastered doorpiece, while doorways have been added in the second and fourth bays. The first floor has a regular arrangement of windows, and there are three later box dormers.
On the ground floor, there is a single window in the return bay facing St. Catherine's Street. The ground floor windows have 12-pane glazing, while the first floor windows have 4-pane glazing, and the dormers feature plate glass, all of which are timber sash and case. A projecting bowed rear stairwell with a piended roof is also present. The building has corniced end stacks and is topped with purple Welsh slate roofs.
In the rear, there are high rubble garden walls, although the western section has been replaced with concrete blocks to separate the former stables, which are now known as Meridith Mews.
Local climate
Castle Bar, 47 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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