Rectory, St John's Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Rectory. 1 related planning application.

Rectory, St John's Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, Forres

WRENN ID
small-rood-autumn
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
Rectory
Address
Rectory, St John's Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, Forres, IV36 3BN
OS grid reference
NJ 040 592
Coordinates
57.61274, -3.60693
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Rectory of St John's Episcopal Church, located on Victoria Road in Forres, was built in 1864. This two-storey building features three asymmetrical bays with a central door. It is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The front door is adorned with a heavy bracketed cornice. To the left, there is a tripartite window, while the right side has a canted bay window set in an advanced gabled bay. The first floor has round-headed bipartite windows, and the building has deep eaves. There are single-storey, single-bay wings to the east and west, with end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Rectory, St John's Episcopal Church, Victoria Road, 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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