Limuru, 8 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.

Limuru, 8 Institution Road, Elgin

WRENN ID
errant-forge-woodpecker
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
Limuru, 8 Institution Road, Elgin, IV30 1RP
OS grid reference
NJ 220 626
Coordinates
57.64709, -3.3071
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Limuru is a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay house built around 1855-1860. It features tooled ashlar stone with ashlar dressings and rubble flanks. The house has an advanced gabled central bay with a door that is approached by a flight of steps, which includes an original cast-iron handrail. There is a bandcourse at the ground floor level, and the outer first-floor windows barely rise through the wallhead to gablets. The house has corniced end stacks and sawtooth skews on the central advanced gable. The windows have lying-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with slate. Additionally, there are coped rubble garden walls surrounding the property.

Local climate

Limuru, 8 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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