50-52 High Street, Elgin

Dated 1694; 3-storey and attic, 3-bay merchant's house

with arcaded ground floor; harled rubble, stone

margins. 4 round-headed arches in ground floor (one

leading to pend) resting on squat pillars with square

moulded capitals. 1st and 2nd floor windows slightly

enlarged in early 19th century, with tooled margins;

attic window E gable with original roll moulding; 2 swept

dormers in stone slab roof; 3 smiliar dormers of varying

size to rear; crowsteps; moulded copes to gables chimneys.

Contemporary 3-storey irregular 2-bay gabled and crowstepped

wing to rear with 2 chamfered foorways, one

probably giving on to scale and plat stair. No remaining

original internal features except portions of stair.

Further 2-storey, 3-bay building of 17/18th century date

giving onto close; rubble with chamfered mouldings to door

and windows. Large later 19th century warehouse of 2

storeys, 6 bays. Rubble, stugged and tooled dressings.

Single storey 3-bay side elevation of 48 High Street flanks

close.