42-46 High Street, Elgin is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
42-46 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- hushed-landing-fog
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 42-46 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1BU
- OS grid reference
- NJ 217 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64883, -3.31268
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 42-46 High Street in Elgin, dates back to 1688 and is a three-storey merchant's house with a dormerless attic. It features five bays and an arcaded ground floor, with harled walls and ashlar dressings. The façade includes five round-headed arches, the central one leading to a pend, supported by squat pillars with square capitals. The windows are symmetrical and have roll-moulded architraves, while the crowstepped gables are topped with moulded copes on the gable stacks.
At the rear, there is a low tunnel-vaulted pend leading to a close, flanked by two wings. One of these wings is an early 18th-century single-storey dwelling with three bays, rendered and lined to resemble ashlar. The other is a two-storey, four-bay wing from the 18th century, which has undergone significant remodelling. The main house has a slate roof on the High Street side, with some local slates used on the rear.
Local climate
42-46 High Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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