4, 8, 8 Castle Street, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. House.
4, 8, 8 Castle Street, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- night-foundation-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, 8, 8 Castle Street, Brechin, DD9 6JN
- OS grid reference
- NO 595 601
- Coordinates
- 56.73154, -2.66344
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 4, 8, and 8 Castle Street in Brechin, dates back to 1788. It features an ashlar front and is three stories tall with an attic, presenting a three-window front with margined openings. The center has a wall-head gable that includes an architraved oeil-de-boeuf window and a tall chimney stack. There is a central door that is deeply recessed and accessed by steps. The roof is slated with straight skews and a moulded eaves course. The windows have later uniform glazing with astragalled upper panes.
Local climate
4, 8, 8 Castle 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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