87, 89 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. 3 related planning applications.
87, 89 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- vacant-copper-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Address
- 87, 89 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1EA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 216 628
- Coordinates
- 57.649, -3.31403
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
85 and 87 High Street in Elgin is a building dating from around 1870. It features a three-storey and attic structure with a symmetrical facade that has seven bays arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern. The ground floor has three modern shop fronts, separated by narrow flat-headed entrances leading to pends. The first and second floors are constructed of coursed tooled ashlar, with polished ashlar dressings.
The three central bays are set in a shallow recess, featuring square stilted-headed windows on the first floor, while the outer two bays have bipartite windows with central colonettes. A string course is raised above the window heads. The second floor has round-headed windows, also with bipartites in the outer two bays, linked at the springing level by a string course.
Flat pilasters mark the party walls, topped with simply corbelled capitals and gabletted dies above the cornice. The building has a bracketed eaves cornice, a blocking course, and six piended dormers with cast-iron finials. Corniced ridge stacks and a slate roof complete the design. Additionally, number 85 has a three-storey single bay wing at the rear.
Local climate
87, 89 High Street, Elgin 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 applications
- 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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