5B High Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House.

5B High Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
gilded-slate-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
House
Address
5B High Street, Elgin, IV30 1EQ
OS grid reference
NJ 218 628
Coordinates
57.64919, -3.3104
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5B High Street in Elgin is an early 18th century single storey and attic house. It features three bays with a central door and is harled with painted chamfered stone margins. The building has three wallhead gablet dormers and an early chimneyhead. The roof is made of stone slabs with a stone ridge, and the north gable has crowsteps with mason's calipers carved on the skewputt.

Local climate

5B 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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