56 King Street, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. House.

56 King Street, Nairn

WRENN ID
knotted-cinder-khaki
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Type
House
OS grid reference
NH 884 567
Coordinates
57.58695, -3.86754
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th century house located at 56 King Street in Nairn. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring three bays with a centrally placed entrance that has a cornice and a modern glazed door. The gable end faces King Street and includes two windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with broached ashlar dressings. It has an eaves course, two piended dormers, and corniced and end stacks, all topped with a slate roof. Additionally, there is a coped rubble garden wall surrounding the property.

Local climate

56 King 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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