41, 43, 45, 47 High Street, Banff

Dated 1787, restored 1975. 3-storey, wide 5-bay house with centre arched pend leading to U-plan rear. Harled, painted ashlar margins, ashlar margined corners.

Keystoned pend arch with blocked imposts; double leaf panelled door set back within pend leads to wide covered passage/hallway and inner court. Left of pend arch (No 41) early 20th century shopfront with basket-arched centre door and large flanking windows. At right (Nos 45A and 47) paired narrow doors, each flanked by single window.

Wide tripartites in outer bays of lst floor with single windows in

bays 2 and 4 and centre datestone. Small windows light 2nd floor, in centre round-headed, keystoned and with blocked imposts. Centre wallhead gable with margined apex stack. Plate glass glazing in shop windows, Nos 41 and 47; timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing with 8-pane side lights to tripartites, 6-pane in 2nd floor windows. Broad margined and corniced end and front apex stacks; flat

skews with moulded run-off skewputts; slate roof.

REAR: access to rear through pend; wide passage/hallway with simple plaster ceiling cornice and centre moulded plaster circle indicating site of former light. 2-storey modernised wings project each side of inner court.

REAR GARDEN WALLS: rear sloping garden enclosed by rubble walls.