A small river located to the east of the River Findhorn in N Moray. The burn has been subject to a flood protection scheme after posing risk to Forres.
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By Alexander Cattanach, 1910-11. Symmetrical 2 storey Post Office, twin gabled and with multi-pitched roof. Doors to either side with semi-circular fanlights; three lights between. Stepped hoodmould over inscribed POST OFFICE 1911 to centre. Bracketed first floor outer windows with centre mullioned bipartite breaking eaves.
An early Post Office built during the reign of George V and interestingly lacking the usual royal cypher indicating it was likely built prior to his Coronation.
Alexander Cattanach was an architect whose career was interrupted by war, however he was best known for his many cinemas in the north of Scotland and his work for the Hydro-Electric Board.
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By John Rhind, 1870-71. Decorated Gothic; cruciform plan. Coursed, stugged rubble, tooled ashlar dressings, slated roof. N gable to High street with large decorated and Gothic window flanked by square porches with pointed arched doors, moulded reveals and nook shafts; Y-tracery windows on return elevation. Decorated parapet and angle pinnacles. 5-bay nave with paired lancets in aisles and geometric traceried clerestory windows with gabled and finialled heads. Tall transepts with decorated windows, single bay chancel. N gable with decorated head and flanking moulded octagonal
buttresses rising through the parapet to form shafted and gabletted pinnacles.
The original church was built in 1812, repaired in 1852, but was rebuilt in 1870-71 to this design by John Rhind. It was converted for use as a church hall after its closure in 1971, then closed for good in c.2005.
Currently on the Buildings At Risk Register, with vegetation and pigeons taking control, this church has been unoccupied since 2005. Consent has been given to turn it into a two bedroom dwelling (after poo removal).
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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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Left: built 1839, probably William Robertson of Elgin; ground floor of frontage re-modelled by J and W Wittet, also Elgin, 1938. 3-storey, 5-bay classical bank with 1938 polished granite façade to ground floor. Pend to right. End-bays slightly advanced; moulded eaves cornice and architraves to outer windows.
Built as British Linen Bank, latterly Clydesdale Bank.
Right: later 18th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay. Polished ashlar ground floor Bank facade (circa 1900) and narrow entrance to pend. Coursed ashlar 1st, 2nd floors and shaped gable; polished ashlar dressings. Raised margins and moulded cills to all windows, the lintels of which are linked by band courses.
Formerly North of Scotland and Town and County Bank. Contrasts with later bank next door.
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