Longview Hotel, 122-6 High Street, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Longview Hotel, 122-6 High Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Longview Hotel, 122-6 High Street, Forres, IV36 1NP
- OS grid reference
- NJ 036 588
- Coordinates
- 57.60928, -3.61446
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Longview Hotel, located at 122-126 High Street in Forres, was designed by John Rhind and built between 1881 and 1882. This building showcases Scottish Revival architecture with an ashlar stone frontage. It stands three storeys high with an attic and features four bays.
The ground floor retains original shopfronts supported by slender columns. The upper floors are distinguished by two-storey oriel windows with pierced parapets at the outer bays. These outer bays rise into crowstep gabled attic and garret storeys. The inner bays have balconies on the first floor, with windows and cornices topped by scrolled pediments. At the attic level, the inner bays are adorned with steeply pedimented dormers that contain oval windows.
A corbelled crenellated parapet is present at the inner bays, with the corbelling extending across the outer bays to support the pierced parapet above the oriels. Additionally, there are corbelled conical-roofed angle turrets. The building is richly detailed, featuring heraldic beasts perched atop the gables and outer bays, as well as climbing up the pediments of the inner bays. The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing.
Local climate
Longview Hotel, 122-6 High Street, Forres receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
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