Royal British Legion Club, Cawdor Street, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Club building, house.
Royal British Legion Club, Cawdor Street, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- quartered-chapel-rush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Club building, house
- OS grid reference
- NH 882 562
- Coordinates
- 57.58251, -3.8709
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal British Legion Club, located on Cawdor Street in Nairn, dates from around 1800. It is a single-storey building with a raised basement and an attic, featuring three bays. The central bay, which is slightly advanced, has a door framed by a pediment. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with harled side and rear elevations, complemented by polished ashlar rusticated quoins and dressings.
A flight of steps leads up to the central door, which is adorned with corniced and moulded architraves, and the pediment is topped with three urn finials. A later entrance door, similar in style to the original, has been added to the west elevation and is also accessed by steps over the raised basement. The building has 12-pane sash windows with ashlar margins, shouldered ashlar chimneys, and a piended slate roof, along with two modern flat-roofed dormers.
At the front, there are a pair of square ashlar gate piers with raised angle margins, cornices, and square plinths that support acorn finials. These piers are connected by a plain iron lamp bracket and holder, and there is a modern wrought iron gate. The property is enclosed by a low rubble wall topped with an ashlar cope.
Local climate
Royal British Legion Club, Cawdor 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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