By 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. 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.
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.
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