185 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Commercial.
185 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- wild-spire-swift
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- 185 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1DW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 214 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64849, -3.31769
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
185 High Street in Elgin is an earlier 19th-century building featuring two storeys and an attic, with two bays. The ground floor has a modern shop front, while the upper facade is made of classical ashlar and includes symmetrical corniced windows. The building is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and it has two canted dormers with two- and three-pane glazing. There is a single corniced end stack and a slate roof.
Local climate
185 High 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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