79 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Building. 2 related planning applications.

79 High Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
forbidden-hammer-wren
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1983
Type
Building
Address
79 High Street, Elgin, IV36 1AE
OS grid reference
NJ 037 589
Coordinates
57.61022, -3.61305
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

79 High Street in Elgin is a building constructed between 1830 and 1840, possibly designed by William Robertson. It consists of three sections that have undergone significant alterations. The building has three storeys and five bays, featuring tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.

The first-floor windows are large and originally had tripartite designs similar to those at No 73, but the windows at No 75 were altered around 1900, with raised cills and the addition of central stone mullions and new glazing. At No 79, the original timber mullions have been removed and replaced with plate glass. The shopfronts at Nos 73 and 75 are modern, while No 79 has an Edwardian shopfront with a fascia board and a segmental pediment above its first-floor windows. The building also features a moulded eaves cornice and a slated roof, with some original glazing patterns still visible on the upper floors.

There is a two-storey, five-bay return elevation facing North Street, which is harled with contrasting painted margins and has later plate glass glazing.

Local climate

79 High Street, Elgin 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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