19-21 Lombard Street, Inverness

23 High Street in Inverness is a building designed by Matthews & Lawrie, constructed between 1878 and 1879. It features a Flemish Baronial style and is built from ashlar stone, rising three storeys with an attic. The High Street facade has five bays, with modern shopfronts on either side of a pend at the ground floor. The first-floor windows are set within shouldered-arched recesses supported by slender columns with decorative foliated capitals. The second-floor windows are framed with architraves, and the central window is flanked by engaged columns with foliated capitals, resting on corbels and topped with a gablet that displays carved Royal Arms and a circular chimney finial.

The building has circular angle turrets that project from the wall at the second floor, featuring crosslet openings at the attic level and topped with conical roofs covered in fish-scale slates and wrought-iron finials. There are two dormers on the roof and a parapet adorned with curvilinear crenellations. The northern front, facing Lombard Street, has three bays and three dormers. The western front, also facing Lombard Street, connects to the northern front through a canted angle bay, which has a turret that projects from the wall, circular at the second floor with an octagonal roof, also fish-scale slated and finished with a wrought-iron finial. This western front has three storeys and an attic with eleven bays, featuring shops at the ground floor. A corbelled rope-moulded string course runs along the first floor, while the second, sixth, and tenth second-floor windows are topped with chimneyed gablets. The remaining second-floor windows are surmounted by segmental pediments with urn finials. The northwest angle is chamfered with a circular angle turret that has a conical fish-scale slated roof. The northern front, facing Baron Taylor's Street, includes a two-bay original shopfront at the ground floor and an attic window with a cornice and strapwork.