Lodge, Dr Gray's Hospital, 32 Pluscarden Road, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Lodge.

Lodge, Dr Gray's Hospital, 32 Pluscarden Road, Elgin

WRENN ID
scarred-quartz-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 August 1981
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NJ 208 625
Coordinates
57.64554, -3.32818
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lodge at Dr Gray's Hospital, located at 32 Pluscarden Road in Elgin, was built in 1887, likely designed by William Reid following a design by William Robertson. This classical building is single storey and features three bays, with a prominent central portico that has a pediment and pedimented gables facing Pluscarden Road and the hospital. The exterior is constructed from finely hammered ashlar stone, with polished ashlar dressings. All windows have moulded lugged architraves, and there is an eaves cornice. At the rear, there are single storey additions made of coursed rubble. The building has a corniced stack and a slate roof.

Local climate

Lodge, Dr Gray's Hospital, 32 Pluscarden Road, 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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