Mechanics' Institute, Church Street, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Institute.
Mechanics' Institute, Church Street, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- other-hearth-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Institute
- OS grid reference
- NO 595 601
- Coordinates
- 56.73163, -2.66256
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mechanics' Institute on Church Street in Brechin was built in 1838 by John Henderson from Edinburgh and is designed in the Tudor Gothic style. This symmetrical building is faced with ashlar and consists of two storeys, featuring a slim central tower. There are three bays on each side of the tower, with square-headed two-light windows that have stone mullions and rectangular hood moulds, and the first floor is transomed with lying pane glazing. The building is topped with a crenellated parapet. Access is provided by a door located up steps in the tower, which also features a slim arched window, a clock, and two tall belfry lights above. The structure includes four polygonal angle buttresses that terminate in pinnacles. On the south front, there is a semi-octagonal canted bay with narrow bipartite windows and a flat roof.
Local climate
Mechanics' Institute, Church 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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