St Giles, 9 High Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Building. 4 related planning applications.
St Giles, 9 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- fossil-niche-swallow
- 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
- Building
- OS grid reference
- NJ 218 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64911, -3.31065
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Giles, located at 9 High Street in Elgin, is a building designed by Andrew Heiton from Perth in 1893, showcasing a Scots Baronial style. The structure is asymmetrical, featuring two storeys and an attic, constructed from bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. The entrance is situated in a drum tower on the west gable, which includes a re-used panel above it.
To the right, there is an advanced crowstepped bay with a tripartite window arrangement on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor. At the attic level, a bowed oriel window is present. The ground floor has chamfered corners that are corbelled to a square shape at the first floor. A recessed bay contains ground floor windows arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern, with a single bipartite window on the first floor. The basement features vents designed as gunloops. The building is topped with crowstepped gables and has a slate roof.
Additionally, there are decorative cast-iron railings surrounding the property, and a modern wing has been added to the rear.
Local climate
St Giles, 9 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 — 4 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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