78 South College Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 January 1989.

78 South College Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
winding-doorway-raven
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 January 1989
Address
78 South College Street, Elgin, IV30 1HA
OS grid reference
NJ 222 628
Coordinates
57.64843, -3.30429
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

74 South College Street in Elgin is a two-storey terrace of houses designed by Charles C Doig between 1938 and 1945. The terrace consists of four two-bay dwellings in each block, constructed with rubble and featuring simulated tooled ashlar dressings. The design includes slightly advanced paired gabled bays, which are flanked by paired entrances. The first-floor windows in the outer bays break the wallhead under a swept dormer. The buildings have coped ridges and end stacks, topped with slate roofs.

The original glazing pattern consists of 6- or 16-pane sash windows, and the original doors feature three lower panels with 6-pane glazing in the upper light. As of 1988, some houses, specifically numbers 64, 66, 76, and 90, have modern glazing and doors. The terrace is fronted by a low coped rubble wall that separates the housing from the main road.

Local climate

78 South College 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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