161-163 High Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Former bank building. 6 related planning applications.
161-163 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- veiled-flue-tarn
- 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
- Former bank building
- Address
- 161-163 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1DW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 214 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64867, -3.31706
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
161-163 High Street in Elgin is a former bank building designed by A and W Reid in 1856, featuring Renaissance architectural details. The building is three stories high and has three bays facing both High Street and North Street. The High Street side has a modern shop front, while the North Street side showcases a channelled ashlar ground floor. The first and second floors are finished in painted ashlar, and the building has rusticated quoins. All windows are framed with moulded lugged architraves; the first-floor windows have alternating segmental and triangular pediments. There are cill bands connecting the windows, and a blind balustrade is located below the first-floor windows on North Street. The building also features a bracketted cornice, corniced stacks, and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
161-163 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 — 6 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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