5 Swan Street, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. House. 1 related planning application.
5 Swan Street, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- turning-gable-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 Swan Street, Brechin, DD9 6EE
- OS grid reference
- NO 597 602
- Coordinates
- 56.73242, -2.66001
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Swan Street in Brechin is a mid-19th century building designed in the Victorian Renaissance style. It features a symmetrical, 2-storey and attic facade with three windows, constructed from ashlar stone. The ends of the building are accentuated by rusticated pilasters and channelled base courses. The outer windows on the ground floor are bipartite and have pilasters with an entablature above them, while the first-floor windows are arched and adorned with decorated keyblocks. The central entrance is an arched door set within a rusticated architrave, also featuring a sculptured keyblock. Additional architectural details include sill string courses, a prominent cornice, and a panelled parapet decorated with three circular motifs. There are two dormers with triangular heads located behind the parapet.
Local climate
5 Swan 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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