Description

John Rhind, 1881-82. Scottish Revival; ashlar frontage. 3
storeys and attic. 4 bays. Original shopfronts with slender
columns at ground floor; at upper floors, 2-storey oriels
with pierced parapets at outer bays; outer bays carried up as
crowstep gabled attic and garret storeys; at inner bays,
balconies at 1st floor, windows and cornices with scrolled
pediments above them; at attic level at inner bays steeply
pedimented dormers with oval windows; plate glass glazing.
Corbelled crenellated parapet at inner bays, the corbelling
carried across the outer bays to bear the pierced parapet
above the oriels and corbelled conical-roofed angle turrets.
Elaborate detail including heraldic beasts perched on top of
gables or outer bays and climbing up pediments of inner bays.

Statement of Interest

Front incorporates datestone of 1882 and datestone from

previous building on the site inscribed "Jacobus Roy Urbis

Forres sic praetor condidit 1730". The present building

formerly incorporated the former Forres Post Office. At rear,

re-used lintel at one upper window dated 1643 with inscription.

Former Item 94 (1983 Revised List)

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17826491

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990