Winchester House, 1 King Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Winchester House, 1 King Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- gilded-ledge-mint
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Winchester House, 1 King Street, Elgin, IV30 1EU
- OS grid reference
- NJ 221 629
- Coordinates
- 57.64983, -3.3067
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Winchester House, located at 1 King Street in Elgin, was built by William Robertson between 1831 and 1832. This two-storey house is set on a raised basement and features three bays with a central doorpiece that is pilastered and accessed by a flight of steps. The exterior is constructed from rubble with polished ashlar long and short dressings and quoins, and it has raised tooled margins. The ground floor windows have panelled aprons and 12-pane glazing. The roof is piended and covered with slate. There are wings at the rear of the house that were added at various times. The property is enclosed by coped rubble garden walls.
Local climate
Winchester House, 1 King 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 — 3 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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