Drakies House, Culcabock Avenue, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Drakies House, Culcabock Avenue, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- inner-copper-candle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Drakies House, Culcabock Avenue, Inverness, IV2 3RQ
- OS grid reference
- NH 681 443
- Coordinates
- 57.47051, -4.19931
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drakies House, located on Culcabock Avenue in Inverness, was built in 1820. This two-storey building features a harled exterior with ashlar dressings and has three broad bays. The central bay is accentuated by a Roman Doric portico. At the rear, there is a wing with a bow on the north elevation, which includes a Venetian window on the first floor. The building also has rusticated quoins and a slated roof.
Local climate
Drakies House, Culcabock Avenue, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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