181 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Commercial.
181 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- roaming-pediment-flax
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- 181 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1DW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 214 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64852, -3.31758
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
181 High Street in Elgin is a building from the later 19th century, featuring three storeys and three bays. The ground floor has a modern shop front and a narrow flat-arched entrance leading to a pend. The first and second floors have a symmetrical ashlar facade, with a canted oriel window at the centre of the first floor, topped by a decorated and monogrammed parapet. Above this, there is a bipartite window. The building is finished with a cornice and a low parapet, and it has a slate roof.
Local climate
181 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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