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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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