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Latitude: 57.6663 / 57°39'58"N
Longitude: -2.5238 / 2°31'25"W
OS Eastings: 368848
OS Northings: 864163
OS Grid: NJ688641
Mapcode National: GBR N84G.DHG
Mapcode Global: WH8LW.6KFT
Plus Code: 9C9VMF8G+GF
Entry Name: Employment Office, 23-25 Castle Street, Banff
Listing Name: 23, 25 Castle Street
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 357379
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21938
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Town: Banff
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Traditional County: Banffshire
1830-40. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house fronting street. Dark
square whinstone frontage, painted tooled and polished ashlar dressings, rubble whinstone return gables. Centre pilastered and
corniced entrance; additional doorway in extreme left (SE) bay. Panelled aprons to ground floor windows; lst floor windows linked by wide bandcourse; single ground and lst floor window in return N gable. Late 19th century canted wallhead dormers in outer bays. Modern 2-pane glazing in ground floor windows, 12-pane in lst floor and plate glass and 4-pane in dormers. Deep moulded wallhead cornice; coped end stacks; flat skewputs. slate roof.
INTERIOR: simple moulded friezes in former dining room and hall. Fine decorative cast-iron balusters with anthemion design to staircase between ground and lst floors, simpler design to attic stair.
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