Glen Cairn, 13 High Street, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. House.

Glen Cairn, 13 High Street, Forres

WRENN ID
buried-banister-russet
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
House
OS grid reference
NJ 039 591
Coordinates
57.61183, -3.60935
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glen Cairn is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 13 High Street in Forres. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. It has a gable end facing High Street, with a later corniced ashlar porch at the center of the west front. The south gable, which also faces High Street, features a ground floor that has been replaced in ashlar with a moulded cornice. The original 12-pane glazing pattern is preserved on the west front. The house has an end stack and a slated roof. Surrounding the property is a dwarf garden wall made of rubble, which has square ashlar piers at each end.

Local climate

Glen Cairn, 13 High 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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