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Latitude: 57.6489 / 57°38'56"N
Longitude: -3.3162 / 3°18'58"W
OS Eastings: 321538
OS Northings: 862873
OS Grid: NJ215628
Mapcode National: GBR L85H.X6Q
Mapcode Global: WH6JF.103L
Plus Code: 9C9RJMXM+HG
Entry Name: 147-149 High Street, Elgin
Listing Name: 147-149 High Street
Listing Date: 20 August 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371867
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30752
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Elgin, 147-149 High Street
ID on this website: 200371867
A Marshall Mackenzie, 1870-80. 3 storeys and attic, 4
bays. Modern shop front to right of original entrance
with bowed oriel above and roll moulded architrave to 2nd
floor window. Ashlar facade. 1st floor windows linked by
moulded cill courses; moulded string course between
1st and 2nd floors. Left bay with crowstepped gablet
enclosing small oriel recalling that on Ritchie's House.
Above parapet 3 dormers with ornate pediments bearing carved
beasts, finials and initials. Banffshire slate roof.
INTERIOR: large Jacobean fireplace in 1st floor room with
chimneypiece dated 1688; 8' high 10' wide, temporarily
blocked except for moulded and crested overmantel
supported by pair of caryatids.
Built on site of 17th century Ritchie's House, the pediments
and arcade pillars of which are now incorporated in the
loggia at Lady Hill House (sometime property of A Marshall
Mackenzie). Fireplace initialled
I D
C V
for John Donaldson and Catherine Urquhart, his wife,
together with Donaldson arms. Wallhead pediments, copied
from those on Ritchie's House, bear initials of the architect
owner, A Marshall Mackenzie.
Former Item 67 (1981 Revised List).
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