2 The Square, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House.

2 The Square, Fochabers

WRENN ID
fading-nave-finch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 345 587
Coordinates
57.61416, -3.09678
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 The Square in Fochabers is a house dating from around 1800. It is two stories tall with an attic and features a west-facing three-bay design. The exterior is harled, with a rubble gable facing High Street, and it has contrasting painted ashlar margins that have been reworked in the later 19th century. The house has a central door and a regular arrangement of windows, with later canted dormers in the outer bays and four-pane glazing. The roof is slate, with stone ridges and coped end stacks.

Local climate

2 The Square, Fochabers 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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