8 George Street, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Cottage.

8 George Street, Fochabers

WRENN ID
lunar-bastion-root
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
8 George Street, Fochabers, IV32 7EG
OS grid reference
NJ 344 587
Coordinates
57.61383, -3.09877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

8 George Street in Fochabers is a single-storey cottage that dates back to 1777 and was altered in 1933. The cottage has three bays and features a harled exterior with contrasting painted chamfered ashlar margins. The central door is topped with a datestone and worn initials. The windows have 4-pane glazing, and the cottage has coped end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

8 George Street, Fochabers 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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