Hythe Hill, 23 West High Street, Bishopmill, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Villa.

Hythe Hill, 23 West High Street, Bishopmill, Elgin

WRENN ID
upper-gutter-umber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 August 1981
Type
Villa
Address
Hythe Hill, 23 West High Street, Bishopmill, Elgin, IV30 4DJ
OS grid reference
NJ 213 634
Coordinates
57.65417, -3.31886
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hythe Hill is a single-storey asymmetrical villa built around 1847, featuring later additions. The structure is made of rubble with finely tooled dressings. The east elevation has three bays and includes a central portico with a pediment, supported by two square pillars and two pilasters that have anthemion-decorated capitals. On the south elevation, which faces the garden, there is a central round-headed niche flanked by canted bays, and a small bowed wing with a balustrade to the west. Some windows have panelled aprons, and the villa has deep eaves courses. The rear of the building has extensive additions.

Originally a gighouse and stable, the building has been converted for garage use. It features rubble with ashlar dressings and is harled on the rear elevation facing the street. There is a pair of square monolith gatepiers with worn pyramidal caps. The property also includes rubble garden walls with stone copes, as well as dressed stone terracing and flights of steps leading to the riverside garden.

Local climate

Hythe Hill, 23 West High Street, Bishopmill, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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