Description

1793 and 1796, on 17th century site, with later addition and alterations. 2 parallel, single storey and loft, former meal-houses

or stores, facing N and abutting pavement; further early 20th

century parallel gabled range at E. Harled, the earlier buildings

with tooled ashlar margins. Former meal stores each with ground

floor doorway and round-headed loft entrance immediately above. W range with re-used apex bellcote. Apex stacks; courrugated-asbestos and corrugated-iron roofs.

Statement of Interest

These former Banff Burgh meal-houses or stores held rents in kind received by the burgh: these were either re-sold to realise cash or retained for distribution in times of hardship. Their survival is most unusual.

The bellcote probably came from the former Banff Grammar School (9 Old Market Place), built in 1780 but raised to 2 storeys in 1805. When heightened the pediment and bellcote were removed as they could not be accommodated on the building in its present gabled form. The meal-house range was converted as a smithy in 1902.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17775239

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)