Messines Cottage, 277 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. 1 related planning application.
Messines Cottage, 277 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pilaster-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Address
- Messines Cottage, 277 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1AD
- OS grid reference
- NJ 211 627
- Coordinates
- 57.64775, -3.32197
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sulva Cottage, located at 275 High Street in Elgin, was built by J and W Wittet between 1919 and 1920. This structure consists of a mirrored pair of single-storey, three-bay cottages that are symmetrically arranged on either side of paired loggias that lead up to steps towards Lady Hill. Each cottage is constructed from bullfaced rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and features a five-sided projecting inner angle bay topped with a hexagonal pyramidal roof and a weathervane. The outer bay has a tripartite design with a swept roof and 2-pane glazing. There are porches at the outer gable ends, crowstepped gables, and end stacks, all covered by Caithness slate roofs. The loggias are adorned with paired basket-arched arcades, built from rubble and incorporating reused pediments from earlier properties in Elgin.
Local climate
Messines Cottage, 277 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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