Town Hall, 81 High Street, Inverurie is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Town hall. 3 related planning applications.

Town Hall, 81 High Street, Inverurie

WRENN ID
leaning-corridor-wax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Town hall
Address
Town Hall, 81 High Street, Inverurie, AB51 3SN
OS grid reference
NJ 775 215
Coordinates
57.28439, -2.37444
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Town Hall located at 81 High Street in Inverurie was designed by J. Russell Mackenzie and completed in 1862. It features a Baroque style influenced by the Vanbrugh-Hawksmoor school. The building is two stories high with a seven-bay granite ashlar front, where the end bays are slightly advanced. The design includes a simple treatment with lions at the blocking course and giant Roman-Doric pilasters at the center. The arched windows are rusticated on the ground floor, and the central wide bay has a niche flanked by narrow windows. Above this, there is a balustrated parapet topped with a fanciful diagonally set cupola inspired by Spanish Baroque architecture. An addition for a library and museum was made in 1911 by Harbourne Maclennan of Jenkins and Marr. The building also houses a bell designed by J. C. Wilson, which dates back to 1862.

Local climate

Town Hall, 81 High Street, Inverurie receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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