8 High Street, Rothes is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Terrace house.
8 High Street, Rothes
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-shingle-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Terrace house
- OS grid reference
- NJ 277 491
- Coordinates
- 57.52669, -3.20773
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 High Street in Rothes is a mid to late 19th-century, two-storey terrace consisting of three four-bay dwellings, originally designed as paired units, and is continuous with number 6 High Street. The building features a mix of granite rubble with tooled sandstone ashlar dressings.
Number 8 has a single doorway and three ground floor windows, while numbers 10, 12, and 14 each have paired centre doors. Each block has three regular windows on the first floor. A tooled ashlar lintel and bandcourse connects the ground floor openings, and the windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing. The building has coped end and ridge stacks, topped with slate roofs.
Local climate
8 High Street, Rothes sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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