Oak Cottage, Nairn Road, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Cottage.
Oak Cottage, Nairn Road, Forres
- WRENN ID
- cold-banister-jay
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 031 587
- Coordinates
- 57.60788, -3.62334
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Oak Cottage, located on Nairn Road in Forres, is a single-storey and attic cottage built in the mid-19th century. It features a four-bay design and is constructed from rubble. The cottage has a central gabled porch that includes a small window at the top of the gable and an apex finial. There are three piended dormers, straight skews, and both end and ridge stacks, all topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Oak Cottage, Nairn Road, 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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