Forestry Commission Offices, High Street, Moffat is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1981. Commercial building.
Forestry Commission Offices, High Street, Moffat
- WRENN ID
- late-basalt-thistle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NT 085 052
- Coordinates
- 55.33246, -3.44338
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Forestry Commission Offices in Moffat, built in the later 19th century, is a two-storey building with a raised basement and three gabled bays, featuring an advanced central bay. The structure is made of graded coursed whinstone with ashlar dressings. The entrance is accessed by steps at the north side. It has a boldly consoled cornice with a balustraded balcony, and the windows are bipartite with apron panels and consoled cornices on the ground floor, while the upper floor has plain cornices. The basement features lying-pane glazing, and there are cill bands at both the ground and first floors. The roof is slated.
Local climate
Forestry Commission Offices, High Street, Moffat sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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