137-139 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
137-139 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- late-keystone-dawn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 137-139 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1DS
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64891, -3.31587
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
137-139 High Street in Elgin is a late 19th century building that stands three storeys tall and features three bays. The modern shop front is flanked by narrow entrances that lead to the pend and upper floors. The facade is made of ashlar stone and includes roll moulding around the windows, as well as shallow corbelling beneath the cills of the second floor. The building has crowsteps, coped end stacks, and a slate roof.
At the rear, there is a pend that includes a range of buildings with three storeys, two storeys, and a single storey. These structures are constructed of rubble with tooled dressings.
Local climate
137-139 High 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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