Nairn County Council Building, 4-6 Court House Lane, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Nairn County Council Building, 4-6 Court House Lane, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- slow-buttress-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Nairn County Council Building, 4-6 Court House Lane, Nairn, IV12 4DR
- OS grid reference
- NH 883 565
- Coordinates
- 57.58522, -3.8692
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Nairn County Council Building, designed by Mackenzie and Matthews in 1847, is an Italianate single-storey structure featuring an asymmetrical five-bay range. The building is constructed from tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings and has rubble flanks. The southwest elevation, facing the street, has a round-headed doorway located near the center, which is set under an open square campanile in a pylon form. Each face of the campanile has a single round-headed and balustraded arch recessed into it. The building also features an eaves band, bracketed eaves, and a shallow pyramidal slate roof.
To the right, there is a wide gabled bay that includes a round-headed tripartite window with a bull's-eye window above it. The southeast elevation has three bays that are lit by round-headed windows. To the left, there are two round-headed windows, while the third bay has been blocked by a later two-bay wing. All windows and the doorway are connected by a band course, and the building is topped with tall chimney stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
Nairn County Council Building, 4-6 Court House Lane, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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 — 2 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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