Bank, 15 Academy 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.
Bank, 15 Academy Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-steeple-bittern
- 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
- Bank, 15 Academy Street, Inverness, IV1 1PG
- OS grid reference
- NH 667 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47908, -4.22453
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, originally a bank located at 15 Academy Street in Inverness, was designed by John Rhind in 1864 and later refronted with alterations by William Mackintosh between 1872 and 1873. It features an Italianate style, constructed of ashlar, and comprises three storeys plus an attic. The front facing Academy Street is asymmetrical yet balanced, consisting of four bays, with the third bay slightly advanced. The entrance is columned, and the ground floor windows are chamfered and shouldered arched.
On the first floor, the first and second windows are corniced, the third is a tripartite window with a consoled segmental pediment, and the fourth is a bipartite window with a consoled cornice. The second floor includes architraved windows for the first and second, a round-arched tripartite window for the third, and a corniced bipartite window for the fourth. The advanced bay is topped with a French pavilion roof and features a segmental pedimented wallhead dormer with a balustrade, flanked by chimney stacks, and includes two canted dormers.
The southeast corner is canted, while the Union Street front has seven bays, with engaged columns featuring foliated capitals at the ground floor windows. The first-floor windows are corniced, and the northeast window is tripartite with a consoled segmental pediment. The second floor windows are architraved, with the northeast window being tripartite. There are three dormers and a slated roof. Additional alterations and extensions were made by Ross and Macbeth in 1903-1904.
Local climate
Bank, 15 Academy 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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