Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

37 CASTLE STREET, SEAFIELD HOUSELB21942

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
22/02/1972
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Burgh
Banff
NGR
NJ 68835 64241
Coordinates
368835, 864241

Description

Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, 1853-4. 2-storey over raised basement, 5-bay frontage to Castle Street with return gable and wing to Seafield Street. Dark local whinstone with contrasting painted ashlar dressings and margins. Centre double-columned Roman doric portico with modillioned and balustraded cornice as balcony. Consoled, corniced and aproned flanking windows; smaller 1st floor fenestration with moulded jambs. Round-headed tripartite in return gable with 2 windows above facing Seafield Street. Also to Seafield Street, slightly set-back 2-

storey 3-bay contemporary house with consoled pedimented centre doorway (now blocked as window) flanking corniced windows and lst floor fenestration as elsewhere in building. 4-pane sash and case glazing in ground floor windows, 8-pane in lst floor. Modillioned cornice; corniced end and ridge stacks; shallow piended slate roofs.

INTERIOR: Roman doric columned screen to stairwell; decorative cast-iron balusters with ornate foliage design. Former drawing room (right) with decorative plaster cornice and grey and white marble chimneypiece; similar ceiling cornice left of entrance but room divided as offices.

Statement of Special Interest

Currently (1994) serving as office accommodation. Former stables to rear not included in listing.

References

Bibliography

ABERDEEN JOURNAL, Feb 23, 1853; advertisement for tenders. BUILDER, Nov 18, 1854.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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