168 High Street, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. House, shop.
168 High Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- tall-flagstone-fog
- 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, shop
- Address
- 168 High Street, Forres, IV36 1NP
- OS grid reference
- NJ 035 588
- Coordinates
- 57.60885, -3.61585
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a two-storey house and shop located at 168 High Street in Forres, dating from 1895. The shop front is constructed of ashlar and features outer pilasters, with two-pane glazing, a fascia, and terminal finials. The first floor has a tripartite design with a detached hoodmould. The building has straight skews adorned with fluted skew blocks and a ball finial. The elevation facing Castlehill Road is built from rubble and includes a gabletted wallhead stack. The roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
168 High 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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