55 High Street, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983.

55 High Street, Forres

WRENN ID
forbidden-hinge-river
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1983
OS grid reference
NJ 037 590
Coordinates
57.61072, -3.61211
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

51 and 53 High Street in Forres is a building dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is two stories tall with an attic and features five bays. At the ground floor, there are two late 19th century shopfronts, and the right bay has a basket-arched pend opening. The building is constructed of tooled rubble with tooled ashlar margins. The first-floor windows retain their original 12-pane glazing pattern. There is a moulded eaves cornice, and the roof is slated with two canted dormers. No 53 has a modern fascia board and shop glazing.

Local climate

55 High Street, Forres 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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