188 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Classical style building.
188 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-oriel-holly
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Classical style building
- Address
- 188 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1BA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 213 627
- Coordinates
- 57.64802, -3.31882
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
188 High Street in Elgin is an earlier 19th century, two-storey and attic building designed in a classical style, featuring shopfronts on the ground floor. The main (north) elevation showcases a stone shopfront with a pair of entrances slightly off centre to the right, flanked by large windows that are currently boarded up. To the far left bay (east) is a wide flat-headed pend. The openings are adorned with moulded architraves. The first floor is finished with tooled and painted ashlar stonework, complete with a cornice and blocking course. The first floor windows are framed with raised ashlar surrounds and feature cornices. There are also two piended dormer windows.
The first floor windows consist of timber sash and case frames with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates arranged in diminishing courses, and there is a straight stone skew to the east along with a corniced chimney stack.
The rear elevation is constructed from rubble stone and includes a two-storey gabled wing, which has a stone forestair leading to a first floor entrance on the east side.
During a visit in 2018, the ground floor interior was observed, while the first floor was partially inspected. The walls have been stripped back to the stonework, and a curved stone staircase is present in the rear wing. Some moulded cornicing remains in the first floor rooms.
Local climate
188 High Street, Elgin 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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