Grant Lodge, Lodge Lane, North College Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Library. 1 related planning application.
Grant Lodge, Lodge Lane, North College Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- carved-stair-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Grant Lodge, Lodge Lane, North College Street, Elgin, IV30 1HS
- OS grid reference
- NJ 219 630
- Coordinates
- 57.65054, -3.31001
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Grant Lodge is a building located on Lodge Lane, North College Street in Elgin, designed by Robert Adam between 1766 and 1769, with an addition to the rear in 1790-91 and early to mid-19th century alterations. The structure has two storeys and an attic, featuring a wide three-bay front and a later two-storey wing with a raised basement at the rear. The exterior is harled with polished ashlar margins and dressings.
The central bay is advanced and has an ashlar balustrade, with channelled clasping angle pilaster strips, and is fronted by an early to mid-19th century tetrastyle porte-cochere. On the ground floor, there are flanking canted bay windows with balustraded parapets. The first floor windows are set in architraves, with a canted bay on the west elevation and a canted oriel in the wing. The building features a deep eaves band, cornice, and blocking course, along with 12-pane sash windows. It has ridge stacks and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Grant Lodge, Lodge Lane, North College Street, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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