Tolbooth Steeple, Low Street, Banff is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Tower. 1 related planning application.
Tolbooth Steeple, Low Street, Banff
- WRENN ID
- brooding-hall-spindle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tolbooth Steeple, Low Street, Banff, AB45 1AY
- OS grid reference
- NJ 689 639
- Coordinates
- 57.66433, -2.52144
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tolbooth Steeple, located on Low Street in Banff, was designed by John Adam between 1764 and 1767, with John Marr serving as the master mason and supervising architect. This building is a square, four-stage tower topped by a tapering, concave-sided hexagonal spire. It is constructed of ashlar stone with polished ashlar dressings. The ground floor features a corniced doorpiece set within a shallow arcade, while the first stage has a lunette above it. The second stage displays a pedimented clock face, and the third stage has a round-headed louvred opening. The structure is capped by a corniced wallhead with angle ball finials. The spire includes oval lucarnes, a gold apex ball finial, and a weathervane.
Local climate
Tolbooth Steeple, Low 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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