1, 3 High Street, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. Mixed-use building. 2 related planning applications.

1, 3 High Street, Brechin

WRENN ID
wild-crypt-mallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 April 1979
Type
Mixed-use building
Address
1, 3 High Street, Brechin, DD9 6ES
OS grid reference
NO 597 602
Coordinates
56.73212, -2.66015
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 and 3 High Street in Brechin is a building dating from around 1815, constructed of ashlar stone. It stands three stories tall with an attic facing Swan Street. The ground floor features pilastered shops. The High Street façade has a two-window pedimented front, while the Swan Street side has a four-window front, with the right-hand windows being blind. There is a slightly advanced two-window pedimented section on this side, which includes a tympanum attic light and a chimney stack that rises through the pediment. The first-floor windows are framed with architraves, and the roofs are slated.

Local climate

1, 3 High Street, Brechin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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