1 The Square, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
1 The Square, Fochabers
- WRENN ID
- deep-stronghold-hazel
- 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, shop
- Address
- 1 The Square, Fochabers, IV32 7DG
- OS grid reference
- NJ 345 587
- Coordinates
- 57.61397, -3.09696
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 The Square in Fochabers is a late 18th century, west-facing, two-storey house and shop with five bays. The building features harled pointed rubble with a harled gable facing High Street, accented by contrasting painted tooled ashlar margins. The facade has a regular arrangement with doorways located in alternate inner bays, and there is a cornice at No 3. The first floor has three windows, while the ground floor and first floor of the High Street return gable each have a single window, along with a small attic window. The windows are fitted with two-pane glazing. The building has coped end stacks, one of which has been renewed, and scroll skewputts, all under a slate roof with a stone ridge. Access to the rear is through a pend located at 69 High Street.
Local climate
1 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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- 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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