Kinrara, 23 Institution Road, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. House. 1 related planning application.

Kinrara, 23 Institution Road, Elgin

WRENN ID
waning-lintel-claret
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
House
Address
Kinrara, 23 Institution Road, Elgin, IV30 1QT
OS grid reference
NJ 218 626
Coordinates
57.64664, -3.31119
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kinrara is a two-storey, three-bay house built around 1845 by A and W Reid, following designs by William Robertson. The building features tooled ashlar stonework with polished ashlar dressings. The central entrance is topped with a shallow pediment and an anthemion finial. On either side of the entrance, there are projecting canted windows on the ground floor, while the central window on the first floor is also pedimented and has 12-pane glazing. The house has coped end wallhead stacks and a piended slate roof. Surrounding the property are coped rubble garden walls.

Local climate

Kinrara, 23 Institution 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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