County Offices, Market Street, Forfar is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Offices. 2 related planning applications.

County Offices, Market Street, Forfar

WRENN ID
open-marble-laurel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1980
Type
Offices
Address
County Offices, Market Street, Forfar, DD8 3WT
OS grid reference
NO 457 512
Coordinates
56.65001, -2.88658
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The County Offices on Market Street in Forfar were originally built as a county prison by David Smith between 1842 and 1843. The building was converted into offices by John Carver after the prison closed in 1883, and the gatehouse was demolished in 1884. The structure is two stories with an attic and features coursed rubble. It has square, three-story battlemented angle towers with tall corbelled angle rounds. The central section includes a narrow three-story bay with a twin shaft chimney. There are also modern additions to the building. Additionally, there is a small mansion house associated with the farm steading nearby.

Local climate

County Offices, Market Street, Forfar sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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