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Greyfriars House, Queen Street, Elgin

A Category B Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6478 / 57°38'52"N

Longitude: -3.3067 / 3°18'24"W

OS Eastings: 322101

OS Northings: 862736

OS Grid: NJ221627

Mapcode National: GBR L86H.V8J

Mapcode Global: WH6JF.51MG

Plus Code: 9C9RJMXV+48

Entry Name: Greyfriars House, Queen Street, Elgin

Listing Name: 6 Queen Street, Greyfriars House

Listing Date: 20 August 1981

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 372002

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30867

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200372002

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City North

Traditional County: Morayshire

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Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, wide 5-bay house. Tooled
ashlar, polished ashlar dressings, rubble flanks and rear.
Advanced centre gabled bay with false apex diamond
corniced chimney with cast-iron finial on corbelled plinth.
Centre door with ornate original cast-iron lamp bracket
above, set in square cable-moulded recess; stepped
string course. Neo-Jacobean detail to 1st floor window
above porch and to parapet of flanking ground floor canted
bay windows; 2 barge-boarded dormers; 4-pane sashes. 2
wings ro rear with one canted dormer with original lying-pane
glazing. 2 ground floor and 2 1st floor windows to
Institution Road gable, one at each floor being blind.
Diamond corniced end stacks in batteries of 3; slate roof.
Coped rubble garden walls.

Statement of Interest

Corner site with Institution Road. Greyfriars House appears

on T S Hutchon's 1855 map of Elgin.

Former Item 183 (1981 Revised List).

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