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Townhouse at 7 High Street, also named as Braco's Banking House. It was built in 1694, and restored and harled in circa 1976. It is a three-storey South-facing house, with three symmetrical bays to the ground and first floor. It has a harled exterior, with ashlar margins and dressings. There is an arcaded ground floor frontage, with three round-headed arches on squat square pillars that have cushion type capitals with primitive Ionic details. There is roll-moulding to the arcade and window margins. The three first floor and two second floor sash windows use 12-pane glazing. The windows in outer bays at the second floor are raised through the eaves, each with a scroll decorated stone pediment with dated monograms of the original owners. The window to the West is dated 1694 and initialled I D (John Duncan) and has a thistle, the East window is initialled M I (Margaret Innes) and has a star (of Innes). The gables are crowstepped, and the initials and date are repeated on skewputts. There are gable end stacks, with deep roll moulded chimneyheads, and a graded stone slab roof with a stone ridge. There is a two-storey wing to the rear with an entrance at the re-entrant angle. It has a piended roof, with a North-facing gablet and a single swept dormer to the West. From 1703 to 1722, the building was occupied by William Duff of Dipple and Braco as a banking house, from which it gets its name. The stone slabs for the roof appear to have come from Leggat's Quarry, New Spynie.
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NJ26SW0072 - BRACO'S BANKING HOUSE, 7 HIGH STREET, ELGIN