Greystone House Including Shop To Ground, 1 And 3 Old Castlegate, Banff is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
Greystone House Including Shop To Ground, 1 And 3 Old Castlegate, Banff
- WRENN ID
- unlit-latch-cobweb
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 688 640
- Coordinates
- 57.66501, -2.52327
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greystone House, which includes a shop on the ground floor, is a building from the later 19th century located at 1 and 3 Old Castlegate in Banff. It has a quadrilateral plan and features a narrow south-facing shop facade at 40 High Street. The building is two stories high with an attic and has irregular bays that face Castle Street and Old Castlegate. It is constructed from dark local whinstone, with contrasting ashlar dressings and margins. The street frontage along Old Castlegate is irregular, featuring a round-headed recessed doorway with a similarly shaped stair window above it, along with an additional doorway to the right. There are two canted wallhead dormers facing Old Castlegate, and the windows are mainly timber sash and case with four panes. The building has coped stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
Greystone House Including Shop To Ground, 1 And 3 Old Castlegate, 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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