Aberdeenshire HER - NJ66SE0170 - 1 HIGH SHORE, BANFF

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Primary ReferenceNJ66SE0170
Name1 HIGH SHORE, BANFF
NRHE Card No.NJ66SE272
NRHE Numlink 229465
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 22004
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Townhouse with a corner turret above a gable dated 1675. It is a 3-storey, 3-bay house with 2 return bays to Carmelite Street. Harled with ashlar margins and dressings. It has a centre door with single flanking window, three windows in the first floor and two breaking the wallhead under shallow piended dormers. There is a return gable with single ground and first floor windows, two second floor windows and diminutive attic light. Rounded angle to street at ground floor level, at first floor corbelled out to square with small decorative datestone and further corbelled as a round bartizan rising above the wallhead to terminate with conical roof. It has three very small windows close to eaves. There is a 3-bay rear with substantial projecting rubble 4-storey rubble stair tower with chamfered angles corbelled out to square to form 4th storey cap house. Small stair tower windows paired in the west facing the caphouse gable and an apex stack. A doorway in the rear of the house provides access to small rear courtyard with site of well. There is multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, substantial coped end stacks, crowstepped gable at the southeast and flat skews elsewhere, a pottery ridge and a slate roof with rooflights. Internally there is an inglenook fireplace on ground floor.
Last Update03/02/2023
Updated Bybmann
CompilerCH
Date of Compilation18/12/2008

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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
TOWNHOUSES  A100
DORMERSSLOPING B100
GABLES CROW-STEPPEDC100
TURRETS CORBELLEDD100
STAIRCASESEXTERNALSITE OFE95
STAIRCASESTURNPIKE F100
TOWERSPOLYGONAL G100
CAP-STONESSQUAREGABLEDH100
COURTYARDS  I100
WELLS REMAINS OFJ100