County Hotel, 7-9 Castle Street, Forfar is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Coaching inn. 4 related planning applications.

County Hotel, 7-9 Castle Street, Forfar

WRENN ID
third-ember-rush
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Coaching inn
Address
County Hotel, 7-9 Castle Street, Forfar, DD8 3AE
OS grid reference
NO 455 506
Coordinates
56.64436, -2.88905
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The County Hotel, located at 7-9 Castle Street in Forfar, dates from around 1800. This three-storey coaching inn features a six-window and fanlight doorpiece on the ground floor, with three windows above. The building is finished in stucco and includes a cill, lintel, and moulded eaves courses. There are also two small original dormers.

Local climate

County Hotel, 7-9 Castle Street, Forfar sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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