Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Museum. 3 related planning applications.
Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- stark-minaret-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres, IV36 1PH
- OS grid reference
- NJ 037 589
- Coordinates
- 57.60989, -3.61234
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Falconer Museum, located on Tolbooth Street in Forres, was designed by A and W Reid and built between 1868 and 1870 in the Italian Renaissance style. The building is two storeys high and features a three-bay entrance on the north side, with a six-bay elevation facing Tolbooth Street. It is constructed of finely stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, while the southern and eastern flanks are made of rubble.
On the north facade, there is a shallow advanced centre bay that includes a paved Roman Doric columned portico. Above this, a pilastered and shafted round-arched tripartite window is supported by broad outer pilaster strips. The frieze above is inscribed with "Falconer Museum," and it features a pediment that encloses a portrait bust and is topped with an anthemion. The outer bays contain round-arched pilastered windows on both floors, with shell decoration and a portrait-mask keystone at the ground floor, while the first-floor windows are recessed in panels.
The west elevation mirrors these details, with two centre bays that are advanced and a panelled parapet. All first-floor windows on this side are bipartite, and the building is topped with a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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