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Former house, municipal chambers and offices, dating from the early 19th Century but incorporating an earlier house. It is a 2-storey and basement house, 5-window to the front, and single storey wing (now raised to 2-storey). It has a rusticated and keyblocked doorpiece, centre attic pediment with round-headed window, ball-topped area piers, concave front to Union Street with pediment and columned centre tripartites and double bow front and back. Inside, it boasts a fine entrance hall with reeded columns leading to a 2-storey galleried hall with apsed ends. The ground floor interior work is of very high quality, marred only by the removal of the chimney pieces. A house of the same frontage is shown in Ainslie's maps of circa 1800 and 1805 but without bows and of approximately half the depth. The upper courses (indicating heightening) and some of the interior details suggest that the earlier house was incorporated in the new one. Number 60 Broad Street to the west has a one-bay link to this house (NK14NW0570). Photographic recording was carried out in 2024 as part of the Peterhead Cultural project.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)