3 West Road, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Cottage.

3 West Road, Elgin

WRENN ID
grey-bastion-sienna
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
Cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 208 626
Coordinates
57.64667, -3.32706
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a cottage located at 3 West Road in Elgin, built around 1820. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features three bays, with a central door. The structure is made of rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. It has a slightly advanced piended porch with chamfered angles, and there are hoodmoulds above the door and windows. The cottage includes one piended dormer and has three-pane glazing. The roof is covered with slate, and there is a rubble garden wall surrounding the property.

Local climate

3 West 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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