2 Castle Street, Brechin is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

2 Castle Street, Brechin

WRENN ID
outer-shingle-ash
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 April 1979
Type
Commercial
Address
2 Castle Street, Brechin, DD9 6JN
OS grid reference
NO 595 602
Coordinates
56.7317, -2.66323
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Castle Street in Brechin is a building from the later 19th century, designed in a mid-Victorian free style. It features stugged snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The structure is two stories high with a three-window front. The outer first-floor windows have gablets above the eaves. There is a central door with a fanlight, pilasters, and a pediment, along with a traceried glass inner door. This door is flanked by three-light bay windows that have crenellated parapets. The center has a single window and two bipartite first-floor windows, while the outer windows are round-headed. The gablets include panel recesses, and the building is adorned with skewputts and finials. The flanks are made of rubble, and it has a slated roof with skewputts. There is also a low coursed garden wall.

Local climate

2 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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