Friars House, 11 Institution Road, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. House.
Friars House, 11 Institution Road, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- final-mortar-pearl
- 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
- House
- Address
- Friars House, 11 Institution Road, Elgin, IV30 1QU
- OS grid reference
- NJ 220 626
- Coordinates
- 57.64725, -3.30818
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Friars House, located at 11 Institution Road in Elgin, is a tall, two-storey house built around 1860 by A and W Reid. It features a raised basement and has a symmetrical façade with three bays, including a central door. The exterior is constructed of tooled ashlar with polished or tooled ashlar dressings.
The house is adorned with a classical portico supported by a pair of Roman Doric columns and engaged pilasters, which is accessed by a flight of stairs that oversails the raised basement. There are canted bay windows flanking the basement and ground floor, while the first-floor windows have raised margins linked by a cill band. Additional architectural details include deep eaves, rusticated quoins, and 4-pane glazing. The chimney stacks are symmetrically placed and consist of two batteries of six with linked cornices. The roof is a shallow piended slate design.
The property is complemented by a rubble garden wall topped with dressed stone coping, and it features three tooled ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Friars House, 11 Institution 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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