Southbank, 36 Academy Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Guest house. 1 related planning application.
Southbank, 36 Academy Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- silent-entrance-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Guest house
- OS grid reference
- NJ 217 625
- Coordinates
- 57.64579, -3.31192
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Southbank is a house located at 36 Academy Street in Elgin, built around 1830 in the style of William Robertson. It is a tall, two-storey building with an attic over a raised basement and features three bays. The front is made of tooled ashlar, while the gables are constructed of rubble and the rear is harled, with ashlar margins. The central entrance has a corniced and pilastered doorpiece, which is accessed by a flight of steps with a palmette balustered cast-iron handrail. The windows mainly have 2-pane glazing, and there are two small piended dormers at the rear. The house has corniced and panelled end stacks and a concrete tiled roof.
Local climate
Southbank, 36 Academy 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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