60-62 High Street, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Shop and dwelling. 1 related planning application.
60-62 High Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- cold-roof-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Shop and dwelling
- Address
- 60-62 High Street, Forres, IV36 1PQ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 037 589
- Coordinates
- 57.61039, -3.61213
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
60-62 High Street in Forres is an early 19th-century building that was raised to three storeys in the late 19th century. It features a three-storey and attic structure with three bays, serving as both a shop and a dwelling. The ground floor has a modern shop window set within a late 19th or early 20th-century shop front, while the upper floors display symmetrical window arrangements. The first floor is rendered with a band course above it, and the second floor is made of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, all of which are painted. The building has two modern dormers with modern two-pane glazing, coped end stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
60-62 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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- 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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