117, 119, 121 High Street, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Commercial.
117, 119, 121 High Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- unlit-doorway-weasel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Commercial
- OS grid reference
- NJ 036 588
- Coordinates
- 57.60961, -3.61431
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
117, 119, and 121 High Street in Forres is a building dated 1748, which underwent significant alterations in the mid-19th century. It has two storeys and an attic, with a total of six bays. The exterior is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, featuring painted margins. On the ground floor, there are Victorian shopfronts flanking a narrow entrance to a pend that is placed asymmetrically. The building has three gabled dormers that extend from below the wallhead, with the central dormer featuring a crowstepped design and a bipartite window with segmentally arched lights. The windows have 2-pane glazing, and the crowstepped gables are topped with a slate roof. The entrance to number 119, accessed through the pend, includes a curved hood-mould and a reused datestone.
Local climate
117, 119, 121 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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