5 Iowa Place, Pilmuir Road, Forres is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983.

5 Iowa Place, Pilmuir Road, Forres

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1983
OS grid reference
NJ 031 587
Coordinates
57.608, -3.62269
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Iowa Place on Pilmuir Road in Forres is a mid-19th century L-plan range of six cottages, featuring a single storey and an attic. The cottages are constructed from rubble with tooled margins. Notably, No. 6 has a bowed corner with "IOWA PLACE" inscribed on the splay above the window. The cottages have 12-pane sash windows, and piended or canted dormers that break the eaves. The fenestration is asymmetrical, with 4-pane sashes located at the rear. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

5 Iowa Place, Pilmuir Road, Forres receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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