38 Union Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. 1 related planning application.

38 Union Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
twisted-wattle-vale
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
Address
38 Union Street, Inverness, IV1 1PX
OS grid reference
NH 666 453
Coordinates
57.47872, -4.22561
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

40-42 Union Street in Inverness is an Italianate building designed by Ross & Joass in 1864. It features three storeys and an attic, with a façade that has 13 bays, the center bay being slightly advanced. The ground floor has modern shopfronts and an arched, keyblocked central doorpiece. On the first floor, there is a tripartite window with a balustered apron in the center bay, while the second floor has an arched, keyblocked window. The attic is adorned with an aedicular gablet flanked by urns. The outer bays feature balustered aprons at the first three and last three windows on the first floor, and round-arched windows on the second floor. There are also dormer windows, a scrolled band course at the second floor, and a bracketed cornice topped with urns.

Local climate

38 Union 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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