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Latitude: 57.6097 / 57°36'34"N
Longitude: -3.6141 / 3°36'50"W
OS Eastings: 303659
OS Northings: 858893
OS Grid: NJ036588
Mapcode National: GBR K8FM.56S
Mapcode Global: WH5H4.GZ7P
Plus Code: 9C9RJ95P+V9
Entry Name: 109, 111 High Street, Forres
Listing Name: 107, 109 and 111 High Street
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 372955
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31657
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Forres, 109, 111 High Street
ID on this website: 200372955
Location: Forres
County: Moray
Town: Forres
Electoral Ward: Forres
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Possibly John Paterson, Edinburgh, circa 1820. 3 storeys, 5
bays. Ashlar with rock-faced rustication at ground floor.
Central segmental arched pend flanked by original shopfronts,
each with centre door in round-arched recess; windows at
upper floors architraved; windows at 1st floor taller than
those at 2nd rusticated quoins; cornice and blocking course.
Coped end stacks; slated roof.
Close at rear roofed over with corrugated iron.
INTERIOR: Entrance in cobbled pend leads to cantilevered
stone staircase with cast-iron balusters with palmette
decoration. Front and side 1st floor rooms connected by L-
plan passage with small circular angle closet with curved
door. Reeded panelled dados throughout; beaded panelled
window shutters and doors; decorative plaster cornices. Some
alteration to rear rooms for shop. Former ground floor
kitchens and stables now stores.
Site purchased 1808 (possibly with earlier building) by John
Cumming, merchant and British Linen Bank agent in Forres.
Present building appears on Wood's map of Forres (1823) as BL
Bank.
John Paterson of Edinburgh practiced in Elgin 1784-89 and
there is evidence that he designed buildings in Moray after
that date (eg Edinkillie Manse 1823). He had a predeliction
for curved rooms; the rock-faced rustication of ground floor
exterior is common in Edinburgh but uncommon in Moray.
Former Item 41 (1983 Revised List)
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