6 Castle Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.

6 Castle Street, Banff

WRENN ID
proud-ledge-alder
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
OS grid reference
NJ 688 640
Coordinates
57.66518, -2.52329
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6 Castle Street in Banff is a tall, two-storey building with a dormerless attic, dating from around 1760. It has four bays and features harled walls with painted ashlar margins. The wide segmental arch that once led to a pend is now blocked and serves as a shop entrance. The ground floor has long windows, while the first floor has four regular windows with four-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. There is also an attic light in the gable end. The building has a single end corniced stack, flat skews with run-off skewputts, and a corrugated asbestos roof.

Local climate

6 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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