Grant Arms Hotel, 42 High Street, Fochabers is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Grant Arms Hotel, 42 High Street, Fochabers
- WRENN ID
- north-steeple-wax
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Grant Arms Hotel, 42 High Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DX
- OS grid reference
- NJ 346 587
- Coordinates
- 57.61362, -3.09493
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Grant Arms Hotel, located at 42 High Street in Fochabers, is a two-storey, three-bay hotel built in the later 19th century. The structure features rubble walls with tooled ashlar dressings and has a return elevation to Westmorland Street. The main entrance is a centrally placed door with a cornice above it. The building has a regular arrangement of windows, including two canted dormers. There is a deep bandcourse separating the ground and first floors, and the windows are fitted with two- and four-pane glazing. The hotel is topped with slate roofs and has decorative cast-iron rainwater goods, along with coped end stacks.
Local climate
Grant Arms Hotel, 42 High Street, 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
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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