Seafield House, 37 Castle Street, Banff

Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, 1853-4. 2-storey over raised basement, 5-bay frontage to Castle Street with return gable and wing to Seafield Street. Dark local whinstone with contrasting painted ashlar dressings and margins. Centre double-columned Roman doric portico with modillioned and balustraded cornice as balcony. Consoled, corniced and aproned flanking windows; smaller 1st floor fenestration with moulded jambs. Round-headed tripartite in return gable with 2 windows above facing Seafield Street. Also to Seafield Street, slightly set-back 2-

storey 3-bay contemporary house with consoled pedimented centre doorway (now blocked as window) flanking corniced windows and lst floor fenestration as elsewhere in building. 4-pane sash and case glazing in ground floor windows, 8-pane in lst floor. Modillioned cornice; corniced end and ridge stacks; shallow piended slate roofs.

INTERIOR: Roman doric columned screen to stairwell; decorative cast-iron balusters with ornate foliage design. Former drawing room (right) with decorative plaster cornice and grey and white marble chimneypiece; similar ceiling cornice left of entrance but room divided as offices.