1-2-3 Gordon Street, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Commercial.

1-2-3 Gordon Street, Nairn

WRENN ID
veiled-gateway-claret
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
NH 884 566
Coordinates
57.58576, -3.86703
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-2-3 Gordon Street in Nairn is an earlier 19th century, two-storey and attic corner building featuring classical details. It has seven bays facing Gordon Street and three bays on High Street, where the center door is now blocked. The ground floor is painted ashlar, while the first floor is dry dashed, accented by polished ashlar giant pilasters at the corners, which are channelled at the ground floor. The building has an eaves course and cornice that projects forward with decorative capitals over the four bays flanking the curved corner. The ground floor is arcaded and includes moulded keystones, with a string course below the apron panelled first floor windows. The curved corner bay features a decorative cast-iron balustrade on the first floor and attic dormer windows. There are two canted dormers and four piended dormers, along with corniced stacks and a slate roof. Additionally, there are two Provost's lamps on the first floor.

Local climate

1-2-3 Gordon Street, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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