147-149 High Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
147-149 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- frozen-column-cobweb
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 147-149 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1DS
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 628
- Coordinates
- 57.6489, -3.31623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
147-149 High Street in Elgin is a building designed by Marshall Mackenzie between 1870 and 1880. It stands three storeys tall with an attic and features four bays. The right side has a modern shop front, while the original entrance includes a bowed oriel window above and a roll moulded architrave on the second-floor window. The facade is made of ashlar stone. The first-floor windows are connected by moulded cill courses, and there is a moulded string course between the first and second floors. The left bay has a crowstepped gablet that encloses a small oriel, reminiscent of the one found on Ritchie's House. Above the parapet, there are three dormers with ornate pediments that display carved beasts, finials, and initials. The roof is covered with Banffshire slate.
Inside, there is a large Jacobean fireplace in the first-floor room, featuring a chimneypiece dated 1688. The fireplace measures 8 feet high and 10 feet wide, although it is temporarily blocked except for the moulded and crested overmantel, which is supported by a pair of caryatids.
Local climate
147-149 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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