St Giles' Building, 123-133 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Commercial building. 12 related planning applications.
St Giles' Building, 123-133 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- noble-timber-onyx
- 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 building
- Address
- St Giles' Building, 123-133 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1EA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64891, -3.31551
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Giles' Building, located at 123-133 High Street in Elgin, was designed by R B Pratt and constructed between 1903 and 1904 in the Edwardian Freestyle. The building stands three storeys tall and features an off-centre pedimented attic with five bays. The modern shop fronts are complemented by an asymmetrical ashlar facade above.
On the right side, there is a narrow bay with a round-headed door and a canted oriel window above it. The central bays have three wide, segmental-headed windows on the first floor, which are adorned with simply carved block mouldings and set within shallow recessed panels. Above these are bipartite windows, and the wider left bay mirrors these details while also including additional side lights.
The outer bays are topped with finialled pediments, with the left bay featuring a lunette. In the attic, there are a pair of round-headed windows that have a small blind arcade and a facetted roof. The unpedimented bays are finished with a balustrade, and the roof is slated.
Local climate
St Giles' Building, 123-133 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 — 12 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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