Moray HER - NJ26SW0465 - 56-60 SOUTH STREET AND 2 CULBERT STREET, ELGIN

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Primary ReferenceNJ26SW0465
Name56-60 SOUTH STREET AND 2 CULBERT STREET, ELGIN
NRHE Card No.NJ26SW316
NRHE Numlink 194650
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 30892
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Classical building by Charles C. Doig, 1894, with alterations to ground floor shop front, also by Doig, in 1962. Still in retail use. It is a 3-storey and attic, 7-bay building, constructed of ashlar with rubble flanks. It has a central door with open pediment, six flanking shop fronts with alternate channelled piers, continuous fascia and cornice. There are flat giant pilasters defining centre three bays. Moulded architraves to all windows, lugged and corniced at first floor. Cornice and die parapet broken by three pedimented dormers. Octagonal turret with leaded bell-cast roof at bowed Culbard Street angle. Similar height, 6-bay elevation to Culbard Street.
Last Update24/03/2023
Updated Byjnicholson
CompilerNCA
Date of Compilation27/09/2017

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