The Market Arms, 5 High Shore, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Public house. 7 related planning applications.

The Market Arms, 5 High Shore, Banff

WRENN ID
turning-pier-harvest
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
Public house
Address
The Market Arms, 5 High Shore, Banff, AB45 1DB
OS grid reference
NJ 690 640
Coordinates
57.66507, -2.52105
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Market Arms, located at 5 High Shore in Banff, is likely an 18th-century building that incorporates earlier elements. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features four bays, along with a rear wing. The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins, presenting an irregular frontage. The building has a single bay on the extreme left (south) and paired bays on the extreme right (north). A segmental-headed archway leads to the rear and the New Market. There are doorways on both sides of the arch, and three dormers break the wallhead beneath catslides. The windows are made of timber sash and case, featuring plate glass and four-pane glazing. The building has coped end stacks, which have been renewed on the north side, and it is topped with slate roofs. A plaque at the rear displays a human mask and is dated 1585.

Local climate

The Market Arms, 5 High Shore, 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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