12 The Square, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

12 The Square, Fochabers

WRENN ID
stony-joist-plover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
House
Address
12 The Square, Fochabers, IV32 7DF
OS grid reference
NJ 345 588
Coordinates
57.61452, -3.09698
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

12 The Square in Fochabers is a late 18th century, south-facing house with two stories and an attic, featuring three bays. The front is made of tooled, squared rubble with tooled ashlar margins at the return gable facing Duke Street. It has a central door and regular window arrangement, with single windows on the ground and first floors of the west gable. The outer bays have later 19th century canted dormers and 4-pane glazing. The house has moulded copes on the end stacks, flat skews with run-off skewputts, and a graded Banffshire slate roof with a stone ridge.

Additionally, there is a two-storey return wing on Duke Street, which is irregular with three bays and harled walls. It features a central door with 4-pane glazing, shaped wallhead, coped end stacks, and a slate roof.

Local climate

12 The Square, Fochabers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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