76, 78 High Street, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Shop, dwelling. 2 related planning applications.
76, 78 High Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- vast-hammer-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Shop, dwelling
- Address
- 76, 78 High Street, Forres, IV36 1PQ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 037 589
- Coordinates
- 57.6102, -3.61256
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
76, 78 High Street, Forres receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 2 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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