23 High Street, Elgin is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. House.
23 High Street, Elgin
- WRENN ID
- quiet-doorway-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 218 628
- Coordinates
- 57.64897, -3.31121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 23 High Street in Elgin, dates from around 1700 and was altered in 1853. It is a tall three-storey house with an attic and features three bays. The structure is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The central door is flanked by shop windows, and there are regular tall windows with 15-pane sashes on the first and second floors. The roof has three wallhead dormers with shaped pedimented gables. The central gable displays the date 1853, while the flanking gables bear the initials W M. The roof is finished with slate and has a stone ridge.
Local climate
23 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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