![]() Further pillar to outer left adjoining 2-storey building with 2 similar (but altered) shops, that to centre with decorative top light with pestle and mortar medallion. Paired smaller shops to left with deep-set outer doors (that to right as above), inner display windows and dividing pillar, shop to right with coloured glass medallion depicting cow's head and that to left with wheatsheaf (see Notes). N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 single storey bays to right of centre incorporating stepped moulded shop front at outer right with large centre keystone, deep-set centre door with margined glazing and original handle, flanking fixed display windows and 3-part decorative top light with coloured glass medallion depicting grocery basket over entrance. Oversized stylised keystone and capitals. Granite ashlar shop fronts, with crenellated, crowstepped darker ashlar 1st floor bays harl and coursed rubble to side. Fine decoratively-astragalled top-lights, coloured glass medallions and original shop doors with brass door furniture. Single storey and 2-storey with attic, 6-bay, terraced, Art Deco style former Co-operative building adjoining separately listed Carron Restaurant, Cameron Street. ![]() Possibly Colonel Tawse and Messrs Hall, 1936. The house on whose feu it stands No 48 High St is itself nearly as old as the foundation of the village in 1787 and was once a butchers, at which time the shed may have been used for slaughtering. ![]() Possibly this structure was part of the hamlet of Cyaak that preceded the village. It is situated near what would originally have been a major crossroad pre-dating the village square crossroad to the south and the Fraserburgh-Banff turnpike junction a mile to the north. This is one of the oldest structures in the village one can clearly see where corrugated iron has replaced thatch, some aspects of the shed suggest it may have originally been a dwelling. However it is presumed to date from the origin of the building to which it is attached. Indeed if found buried in the peat bog one might think it was such. ![]() This apotropaic (averting evil) carving has an extremely atavistic quality, with its appearance of a severed head it is powerfully reminiscent of Celtic Iron Age works relating to the cult of the head. Infohub Opening Hours Mon - Thu 09:00 - 17:00 Fri 10:00 - 17:00 Sat - Sun ClosedĪ granite carving of a human head, mounted on the south gable of the shed. ![]()
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