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Latitude: 57.611 / 57°36'39"N
Longitude: -3.6109 / 3°36'39"W
OS Eastings: 303853
OS Northings: 859031
OS Grid: NJ038590
Mapcode National: GBR K8GL.STC
Mapcode Global: WH5H4.HYRQ
Plus Code: 9C9RJ96Q+9M
Entry Name: 30, 32 High Street, Forres
Listing Name: 30 High Street
Listing Date: 30 March 1983
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 372977
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31678
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200372977
Location: Forres
County: Moray
Town: Forres
Electoral Ward: Forres
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: House
Dated 1777 and 1778. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house much
altered for shop use. Gable end to street with 3-bay shopfront
and 2 windows 1st floor. Coursed rubble gable with polished
ashlar dressings; rubble elsewhere. Raised and moulded
margins to gable 1st floor windows and to blocked centre
door, all with fluted keystones; 2-pane glazing. Crowsteps
to S gable, coped end stack to N gable with date stone;
elaborate skewputts with carved nautilus shell detailing;
slate roof; unfortunate large box dormer.
Datestone with egg and dart border; 1778 John Young, Margaret
Elder. Nautilus shell decoration peculiar to Forres, Rafford
and Findhorn in later 18th and early 19th centuries.
Former Item 62 (1983 Revised List)
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