The Elms, Cairnie Road, Arbroath is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 October 1971. Mansion house.

The Elms, Cairnie Road, Arbroath

WRENN ID
leaning-transept-auburn
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 October 1971
Type
Mansion house
OS grid reference
NO 632 417
Coordinates
56.56625, -2.60035
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Elms is a two-storey mansion house built in the French Gothic style around 1869. It features a rubble and slate construction with ashlar dressings. The building has a steep-pitched roof, an arched porch, and a round corner tower. The architect responsible for its design was William Leiper from Glasgow.

Local climate

The Elms, Cairnie Road, Arbroath sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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