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8 Forteath Avenue, Elgin

A Category B Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6442 / 57°38'39"N

Longitude: -3.3213 / 3°19'16"W

OS Eastings: 321225

OS Northings: 862357

OS Grid: NJ212623

Mapcode National: GBR L85J.78W

Mapcode Global: WH6JD.Y4L6

Plus Code: 9C9RJMVH+MF

Entry Name: 8 Forteath Avenue, Elgin

Listing Name: 8, 10 Forteath Avenue with Garden Walls

Listing Date: 23 January 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371810

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30705

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371810

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

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Description

James Newlands, builder and contractor, 1906. Pair
single storey and attic, 2-bay houses. Bullfaced rubble
sandstone with exaggerated bullfaced dressings. Paired
centre entrances, each with panelled door and narrow
side light with Art Nouvaeu coloured glazing. Slightly
advanced bipartite ground floor window with crenellated
wallhead. Single centre shaped gable with bipartite window
flanked in outer bays by crowstepped gabled dormer;
all dormers break wallhead. 2-pane glazing. Corniced end
stacks; slate roof.
Garden abuts W gable of No 8.
Garden walls: exaggerated bullfaced rubble coped garden
walls front houses with square gatepiers in similar style
surviving to flank pedestrian entrance to No 8. Garden
wall fronting St Catherine's Place (No 8 Forteath Avenue)
with tooled bullfaced roundels in centre of each section of
wall delineated by rustic pilasters.

Statement of Interest

Plans appear to have been drawn by James Newlands himself.

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