50 Moss Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Cottage.

50 Moss Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
sharp-steel-winter
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
Cottage
Address
50 Moss Street, Elgin, IV30 1LT
OS grid reference
NJ 218 624
Coordinates
57.64545, -3.31033
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

50 Moss Street is a mid-19th century, single storey and attic, three-bay cottage. It features a central door with a bracketed pediment, constructed from rubble with tooled margins, an eaves band, and dressings. The cottage has panelled aprons beneath 12-pane windows, with 8-pane windows on the street gable. There are two canted dormers and a rear wing, along with corniced end stacks. The roof is covered with West Highland slate. Additionally, there are coped rubble garden walls surrounding the property.

Local climate

50 Moss 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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