Royal Hotel, Station Road, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Royal Hotel, Station Road, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- floating-vestry-scarlet
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Royal Hotel, Station Road, Elgin, IV30 1QW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 219 623
- Coordinates
- 57.64386, -3.3094
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Hotel, located on Station Road in Elgin, was built in 1865. This two-storey building with an attic features a wide three-bay façade constructed from tooled ashlar stone, complemented by polished ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins.
The central bay is narrow and recessed, featuring a central door that is sheltered by a balustraded portico supported by pilasters and Roman Doric columns. This central entrance is flanked by canted bay windows, which also have balustrades. All windows have lugged margins, and there is a cill band that connects the first-floor windows. The building has eaves and projecting eaves, with a pair of ridge corniced stacks arranged in batteries of four, and a similar arrangement at the rear. The front and flanks of the building each have three segmental-headed dormers, and the roof is a shallow piended slate design.
The property is further enhanced by square ashlar gatepiers that feature cable moulding at the angles and corniced caps, along with a monogram JG. Coped rubble garden walls surround the property, and there is a later addition of a conservatory.
Local climate
Royal Hotel, Station 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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