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Messines Cottage, 277 High Street, Elgin

A Category C Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6478 / 57°38'51"N

Longitude: -3.322 / 3°19'19"W

OS Eastings: 321193

OS Northings: 862752

OS Grid: NJ211627

Mapcode National: GBR L85H.T4P

Mapcode Global: WH6JD.Y18G

Plus Code: 9C9RJMXH+46

Entry Name: Messines Cottage, 277 High Street, Elgin

Listing Name: High Street, Sulva Cottage and Messines Cottage, Lady Hill. (War Veterans' Cottages)

Listing Date: 20 August 1981

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371897

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30776

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371897

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

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Description

J and W Wittet, 1919-20. Mirrored pair single storey,
3-bay cottages placed symmetrically each side of paired
loggias flanking steps up Lady Hill. Each cottage of
bullfaced rubble with tooled ashlar dressings; each with
5 sided projecting inner angle bay with hexagonal
pyramidal roof and weathervane; tripartite with swept
roof to outer bay; 2-pane glazing. Porches to outer
gable ends; crowstepped gables; end stacks; Caithness
slate roofs.
Paired basket-arched arcades to each loggia, rubble built
incorporating reused pediments from earlier Elgin
properties.

Statement of Interest

Cottages gifted by Sir Archibald Williams, MP for Moray and

Nairn to commemorate end of hostilities 11 November 1918.

Former Item 91 (1981 Revised List).

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