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Peterhead, 13, 15 Jamaica Street

House (19th Century)

Site Name Peterhead, 13, 15 Jamaica Street

Classification House (19th Century)

Canmore ID 164631

Site Number NK14NW 273

NGR NK 13527 45936

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Peterhead
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Site Management (12 July 2011)

3-storey 4-window ashlar granite with skewputs (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)

The slope between Broad Street and the harbour contains some of the most picturesque urban streets in Scotland. Laid out between 1771 and 1820, they seem more typical of France than Scotland with their tight packed, largely two storey plain granite houses interspersed with larger net houses and granaries. A variety of details single one building from the next - a fanlight, heavily rusticated doorway, or three part window....A curiosity of the once spacious gardens of these houses is the rich black soil (as constracted with the local clay) which may have returned to Peterhead as ballast. Within living memory, several gardens used whales' jawbones for swings. (C.McKean)

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