41, 43, 45, 47 High Street, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.

41, 43, 45, 47 High Street, Banff

WRENN ID
leaning-lime-gorse
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
Address
41, 43, 45, 47 High Street, Banff, AB45 1AN
OS grid reference
NJ 688 639
Coordinates
57.66395, -2.52351
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

41, 43, 45, and 47 High Street in Banff is a three-storey, five-bay house dated 1787 and restored in 1975. The building features harled walls with painted ashlar margins and ashlar margined corners, and has a central arched pend that leads to a U-shaped rear.

The pend arch is keystoned with blocked imposts, and a double-leaf panelled door set back within the pend leads to a wide covered passage or hallway and an inner court. To the left of the pend arch, at No 41, there is an early 20th-century shopfront with a basket-arched centre door and large flanking windows. On the right, at Nos 45A and 47, there are paired narrow doors, each flanked by a single window.

The first floor features wide tripartite windows in the outer bays, with single windows in bays two and four, and a centre datestone. The second floor has small windows, including a round-headed keystoned window in the centre with blocked imposts. The centre wallhead gable has a margined apex stack. The shop windows at Nos 41 and 47 have plate glass glazing, while the other windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing and 8-pane sidelights in the tripartites, and 6-pane glazing in the second-floor windows. The building has broad margined and corniced end and front apex stacks, flat skews with moulded run-off skewputts, and a slate roof.

At the rear, access is gained through the pend to a wide passage or hallway that features a simple plaster ceiling cornice and a centre moulded plaster circle indicating the site of a former light. Two-storey modernised wings project from each side of the inner court. The rear garden is enclosed by rubble walls.

Local climate

41, 43, 45, 47 High 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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