Garvald House, Newmill, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. House.
Garvald House, Newmill, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- roaming-beam-mist
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 224 631
- Coordinates
- 57.65149, -3.30038
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Garvald House, located in Newmill, Elgin, was built in 1868 by H M S Mackay. This two-storey house features an asymmetrical design and is harled with stone margins and band courses. It has a T-plan layout with a rear wing. The entrance is on the long southern arm of the T, featuring a central door set in a chamfered architrave. To the right, there is a projecting two-storey bay with chamfered angles that are corbelled to a square at the parapet, while a canted ground floor window is situated to the left. The gable end of the cross wing also has a two-storey canted bay. The windows are multi-pane glazed, and the house has corniced end stacks and a slate roof.
The rear wing includes a drum tower topped with a conical roof covered in fish-slate. The entrance is marked by square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps and banded ball finials, accompanied by cast-iron gates. The surrounding wall is built of rubble with a dressed stone coping. Additionally, there is a pedestrian gateway in the wall featuring re-used 17th century flat-headed bolection moulded doorpiece frames.
Local climate
Garvald House, Newmill, Elgin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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