Dr Gray's Hospital, Pluscarden Road, Elgin is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Hospital. 16 related planning applications.
Dr Gray's Hospital, Pluscarden Road, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- vast-rubble-flax
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Dr Gray's Hospital, Pluscarden Road, Elgin, IV30 1SH
- OS grid reference
- NJ 207 625
- Coordinates
- 57.64582, -3.32869
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dr Gray's Hospital, located on Pluscarden Road in Elgin, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and built between 1815 and 1819. This classical building features a three-storey, nine-bay facade made of polished ashlar stone, characterized by a giant pilastered design. The facade includes a Roman Doric tetrastyle portico that supports an entablature and a bold panelled parapet. The central entrance is set at the top of steps and features a wide panel with a fanlight above it. The giant pilasters in the outer bays support the entablature and a die balustrade. The second-floor windows have been enlarged to break the frieze, and the building has 12-pane sash windows.
Above and behind the portico, there is an octagonal stage with pedimented clock faces on alternating elevations. This stage supports a drum with louvred bull's eyes, a copper dome, and a crowning cupola. The interior of the hospital was modernized around 1980.
Local climate
Dr Gray's Hospital, Pluscarden 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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