68-70 High Street, Brechin is a Grade A listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
68-70 High Street, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- winter-bronze-dawn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 68-70 High Street, Brechin, DD9 6EY
- OS grid reference
- NO 597 600
- Coordinates
- 56.73076, -2.6591
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
68-70 High Street in Brechin is a building that dates back to before 1685, possibly built on even older foundations and featuring roof timbers from around 1470. The structure is two stories tall with a three-window front, originally four, and has an L-shaped plan with a gabled two-story and basement rear wing, situated on steeply sloping ground. The exterior is made of rubble with dressed stone details and later ashlar shop fronts that have chamfered openings and a band course at the first-floor level. The building features crowstepped gables and has a corrugated-iron roof with a brick chimney on the south gable. Some unglazed 12-pane sash and case windows remain at the rear.
Inside, there are early flush panelled doors and flagstone flooring, but the interior is largely in a ruinous condition.
Local climate
68-70 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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