Downham, 13 North College Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. House. 1 related planning application.

Downham, 13 North College Street, Elgin

WRENN ID
patient-rubblework-snow
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
House
Address
Downham, 13 North College Street, Elgin, IV30 1EL
OS grid reference
NJ 219 629
Coordinates
57.64933, -3.30853
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Downham is a house dating from around 1800, featuring two storeys and three bays with a central door. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with random rubble on the sides, and it has contrasting painted ashlar margins and joints. The door is framed by a moulded architrave, and there is an eaves band along with a blocked eaves course. The house has chimneys and a renewed gable slate roof.

Local climate

Downham, 13 North College 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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