The Castle, 29 Caroline Street, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. House. 4 related planning applications.

The Castle, 29 Caroline Street, Forres

WRENN ID
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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
House
Address
The Castle, 29 Caroline Street, Forres, IV36 1AQ
OS grid reference
NJ 036 590
Coordinates
57.61097, -3.61447
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Castle, located at 29 Caroline Street in Forres, is a mid to late 18th century, two-storey building designed in an L-shape. It features a later 19th century addition that creates a U-shaped frontage facing Caroline Street. The exterior is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar stone. The entrance is situated at the angle of the building but is currently obscured by a single-storey lean-to porch that extends across the east-facing re-entrant.

On the northeast gable, there are two ground floor windows, one first-floor window, and a small attic window. The southeast gable has a central door flanked by windows and a bull's eye window above, all of which face Caroline Street. The windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing. The building has corniced and coped end stacks, a slate roof, and a stone ridge.

Local climate

The Castle, 29 Caroline Street, 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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