56-58 South Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Commercial building. 9 related planning applications.
56-58 South Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- knotted-kitchen-swift
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 56-58 South Street, Elgin, IV30 1JZ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 627
- Coordinates
- 57.64741, -3.31598
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
56-58 South Street in Elgin is a building designed by Charles C Doig in 1894, with alterations to the ground floor shop front also by Doig in 1962. This classical structure features three storeys and an attic, with a total of seven bays. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with rubble flanks. It has a central door topped by an open pediment, flanked by six shop fronts that have alternate channelled piers, along with a continuous fascia and cornice. The centre three bays are defined by flat giant pilasters, and all windows are adorned with moulded architraves, which are lugged and corniced on the first floor. The cornice and die parapet are interrupted by three pedimented dormers. Additionally, there is an octagonal turret with a leaded bell-cast roof at the bowed angle facing Culbard Street. The elevation on Culbard Street is similar in height and consists of six bays.
Local climate
56-58 South 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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