St Margaret's, 4 Duke Street, Fochabers is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. House.

St Margaret's, 4 Duke Street, Fochabers

WRENN ID
south-pier-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 345 588
Coordinates
57.61488, -3.09654
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Margaret's, located at 4 Duke Street in Fochabers, is a house likely built in 1838, possibly designed by architect William Robertson, and incorporates an earlier core. This two-storey, four-bay house faces west and features modern harl with tooled ashlar dressings. The entrance is off-centre with a hood-mould and is set in a slightly advanced gabled bay. The first-floor front windows break the wallhead under pronounced gablets. There is a later painted wooden oriel window in the first floor of the south gable, and both ground and first-floor windows are present in the north elevation facing Castle Street. The windows have eight-pane horizontal glazing, except for the oriel which has three-pane casements.

The house has an ashlar base course, a rear gabled stairwell, and coped end and shaped rear wallhead stacks, topped with a Banffshire slate roof. The rear walls feature a walled enclosure that is mainly made of rubble, with some brick replacements.

Additionally, there are stables, also attributed to William Robertson and likely built in 1838. These stables are a single-storey and loft range constructed of rubble and partially harled, featuring a centre wallhead gable with a window and multi-pane glazing, and a Banffshire slate roof.

Local climate

St Margaret's, 4 Duke Street, Fochabers 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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