Gordon Arms Hotel, 118-122 High Street, Elgin is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Gordon Arms Hotel, 118-122 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- inner-quartz-clover
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Gordon Arms Hotel, 118-122 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1BW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 215 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64826, -3.31588
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gordon Arms Hotel, located at 118-122 High Street in Elgin, is a large building consisting of two linked properties that date from different periods and exhibit different architectural styles, but are unified by their white rendering. The ground floors feature modern shops.
The property on the left dates from around 1800 and is four storeys high with five bays, featuring a central entrance. The windows on the first, second, and third floors are regularly spaced, with the exception of a modern canted bay window on the right side of the first floor. There is a cornice between the second and third floors, as well as at the wallhead, which has a blocking course. A central panelled wallhead stack is present, along with an end gable stack and quoins on the left side. The roof is slate.
The property on the right is dated 1888 and is three storeys tall with three bays. It features a canted bay window at the centre of the first and second floors, which are flanked by pilasters. The building has channelled quoins, a cornice, and a cill band between the first and second floors. It also includes a frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a balustrade adorned with ball ornaments and end dies. The centre has shell-headed pediments with a datestone, and there are end stacks. The roof is also slate.
Local climate
Gordon Arms Hotel, 118-122 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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