3 High Shore, Banff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. House.
3 High Shore, Banff
- WRENN ID
- plain-span-quill
- 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
- 3 High Shore, Banff, AB45 1DB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 690 640
- Coordinates
- 57.66497, -2.52103
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 High Shore in Banff is a house dated 1740, featuring three storeys and a symmetrical three-bay front. The exterior is harled with tooled ashlar margins. The central entrance has a corniced door with a shouldered lintel, adorned with a carved grotesque head and heavily quoined jambs. The first-floor windows are longer and have 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The house has a single end stack, a slate roof, and flat skews with run-off skewputts. At the rear, there are two-storey wings.
Inside, some original cornices and panelled doors remain.
Local climate
3 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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