7 West Road, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Cottage.
7 West Road, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- waiting-cellar-plover
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 208 626
- Coordinates
- 57.64671, -3.32746
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 7 West Road in Elgin, dates from around 1820 and is a single-storey cottage with an attic. It features three bays and a central door. The structure is constructed of rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The porch is slightly advanced and has piended roofing with chamfered angles. There are hoodmoulds above the door and windows, two canted dormers, and one swept dormer, all with 4-pane glazing. The roof is covered with slate, and there is a rubble garden wall surrounding the property.
Local climate
7 West Road, 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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