Greyfriars House, Queen Street, Elgin

Greyfriars House is a mid-19th century, two-storey, five-bay house located on Queen Street in Elgin. The building features tooled ashlar stonework with polished ashlar dressings, while the flanks and rear are constructed of rubble. The prominent central gabled bay has a false apex and is topped with a diamond corniced chimney that includes a cast-iron finial on a corbelled plinth.

The entrance is marked by a central door set within a square cable-moulded recess, above which is an ornate original cast-iron lamp bracket. A stepped string course runs along the façade. The first-floor window above the porch and the parapet of the flanking ground-floor canted bay windows display Neo-Jacobean detailing. The house has two barge-boarded dormers and features four-pane sash windows.

At the rear, there are two wings, one of which includes a canted dormer with original lying-pane glazing. The Institution Road gable has two windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, with one window on each floor being blind. The building is capped with a slate roof and has diamond corniced end stacks arranged in batteries of three. The property is enclosed by coped rubble garden walls.