76, 78 High Street, Forres

76 and 78 High Street in Forres, built around 1820, are three-storey, symmetrical buildings featuring five bays used for shops and dwellings above. The centre has a basket-arched pend. The exterior is made of finely tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, and the ground floor is painted. Number 78 has an original three-bay shop front with a central door, while number 74 features a late 19th or early 20th-century three-bay shop front with a bracketed corniced fascia above. The elevation facing Tolbooth Street is also three storeys and has two bays that are rendered with painted margins. The first and second-floor windows have raised, moulded architraves, with cornicing at the first floor. The windows have two-pane glazing, and the building has an eaves band and cornice, with a coped ridge and end stacks, all under a shallow slate roof.