96-98 Mid Street, Keith is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. House.

96-98 Mid Street, Keith

WRENN ID
lone-span-plum
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
House
OS grid reference
NJ 431 503
Coordinates
57.53981, -2.95051
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This late 19th-century building at 96-98 Mid Street in Keith is a substantial two-storey and attic house with three bays, facing east onto the street. It features a southeast angle bay and a south gable, with the entrance to number 96 opening onto a lane. The front is made of tooled ashlar, while the gable and rear are constructed from harl pointed rubble, accented with polished ashlar dressings.

The central doorway is recessed, round-headed, and hoodmoulded, adorned with cable moulded detailing and a monogram above. The ground floor has segmental-headed tripartite windows, and the first floor features similar bipartite windows. There are three gabled dormers, with the outer ones flanked by stiff-leaf capitalled nook shafts as jambs to segmental-headed windows. The angle bay is corbelled out at the first floor and includes a window and a worn datestone. The glazing consists of two panes.

There is a corniced entrance in the lane for number 96, leading to a single-storey and attic, two-bay rear wing. The building has corniced end stacks and slate roofs.

Local climate

96-98 Mid Street, Keith sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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