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Fleurs House, 62 Pluscarden Road, Elgin

A Category C Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6443 / 57°38'39"N

Longitude: -3.3339 / 3°20'1"W

OS Eastings: 320474

OS Northings: 862376

OS Grid: NJ204623

Mapcode National: GBR L84J.7JJ

Mapcode Global: WH6JD.R4M5

Plus Code: 9C9RJMV8+PC

Entry Name: Fleurs House, 62 Pluscarden Road, Elgin

Listing Name: 62 Pluscarden Road, Fleurs House

Listing Date: 23 January 1989

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 372001

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30866

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200372001

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

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Description

1829, probably William Robertson with additions circa
1842. Tooled rubble, tooled and polished ashlar
dressings. 2-storey house over raised basement, with
similar height wide single bay raised to 2 storeys in later
19th century; wing set back at E gable. Raised ground
floor entrance with simple pilastered doorpiece reached by
flight of steps; doorway flanked by projecting canted
windows at raised basement and ground floor height and
linked by ashlar parapet raised in centre and supported
by pair ashlar pilasters; decorative cast-iron balustrade
encloses verandah.
Raised 1st floor window in wing set in round-headed
recess and linked to window below and gabled dormer
above by ashlar facing.
All windows retain original lying-pane glazing in upper
sashes.
Coped end stacks; shallow piended slate roofs.
INTERIOR: little survives of interest.
GARDEN WALLS. House enclosed by coped rubble garden
walls. Carriage entrance flanked by simply gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Built by William Young of Burghead in 1829 on whose death in

1842 it passed to his nephew, also William Young. Canted

bays windows and verandah probably date from 1842.

Vignette in T S Hutchon's Map of Elgin (1855) shows

Fleurs House with single storey and basement wing set

back at each gable.

Fleurs House is now a nursing home.

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