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Peterhead, Broad Street, Arbuthnot House
Office (Period Unassigned), Town House (19th Century)
Site Name Peterhead, Broad Street, Arbuthnot House
Classification Office (Period Unassigned), Town House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Union Street; Municipal Chambers; District Council Offices
Canmore ID 164520
Site Number NK14NW 198
NGR NK 13616 46065
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/164520
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Peterhead
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
2-storey and basement 5-window front with single storey wing (now raised to 2-storey) 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; double bow front at back. Fine entrance hall with reeded columns leading to 2-storey galleried hall with apsed ends, ground floor interior work of very high quality marred by removal of chimney pieces.
A house of the same frontage and front area is shown in Ainslie's maps of c. 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. The detail of the present public office looks C. 1820/5; the house may have been altered more than once. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Photographic Survey (April 1961)
Photographic survey of two buildings in Peterhead by the Scottish National Buildings Survey in April 1961.
