39 High Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.

39 High Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
knotted-oriel-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 June 1981
Type
Commercial building
Address
39 High Street, Inverness, IV1 1HT
OS grid reference
NH 667 452
Coordinates
57.47811, -4.22392
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

39 High Street in Inverness is a building designed by William Robertson between 1838 and 1839. It is an astylar, ashlar structure that stands four storeys tall and features a five-bay front. The central three bays are slightly recessed and topped with a pediment. The outer windows on the first floor are tripartite and have a consoled entablature and pediment. There is a panelled cill course on the second floor across the central three bays, along with a cornice at the same level. The building also has a main cornice and a blocking course. The ground floor has modern shopfronts.

Local climate

39 High Street, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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