Gordon Arms Hotel, 78-80 High Street, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Gordon Arms Hotel, 78-80 High Street, Fochabers
- WRENN ID
- quartered-passage-sienna
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Gordon Arms Hotel, 78-80 High Street, Fochabers, IV32 7DH
- OS grid reference
- NJ 344 588
- Coordinates
- 57.615, -3.09915
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gordon Arms Hotel, located at 78-80 High Street in Fochabers, dates from around 1800 and has had subsequent additions and alterations. This two-storey building has an L-shaped layout that faces High Street and West Street, with a single-storey and loft range made of rubble at the back, facing Gordon Street. The main building features colour-washed harl with contrasting painted ashlar margins. The main entrance is highlighted by a squat corniced painted ashlar doorpiece with reeded pilasters. The building has regular fenestration, with five altered bays on the east side, including a tripartite window on the first floor. There are an additional six bays on West Street, which include a single ground floor entrance and principal fenestration on the first floor. The windows have four-pane glazing. The building is topped with margined coped end and ridge stacks and has slate roofs.
Local climate
Gordon Arms Hotel, 78-80 High Street, 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 — 2 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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