42-28 Moss Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Shop. 8 related planning applications.
42-28 Moss Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- plain-moulding-shade
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- 42-28 Moss Street, Elgin, IV30 1LT
- OS grid reference
- NJ 218 625
- Coordinates
- 57.64586, -3.31071
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
42-28 Moss Street in Elgin features ornate cast-iron shop fronts from the late 19th century. The building has one 5-bay and one 3-bay shop front that project in front of a 2-storey elevation, which has been altered from an earlier 19th century design. The shop fronts are adorned with Corinthian colonettes topped with still-leaf capitals, a scalloped basecourse, and fretted brackets that create spandrels. The outer pilasters have dies above and are paired in the center.
Local climate
42-28 Moss 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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