1-7 Queensgate, 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.
1-7 Queensgate, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- twisted-niche-ivy
- 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
- 1-7 Queensgate, Inverness, IV1 1DE
- OS grid reference
- NH 666 454
- Coordinates
- 57.47938, -4.22543
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-7 Queensgate in Inverness is a building designed by Ross & Macbeth in 1895, showcasing a French Renaissance style with coursed masonry. It stands three storeys tall with an attic. The front facing Queensgate features a ten-bay layout with pilastraded shop fronts on the ground floor. On the first floor, the second and seventh windows are recessed bows adorned with carved friezes and scroll-pedimented tablets, which are flanked by urns. The other windows on this level have hoodmoulds.
At the corner with Academy Street, the ground floor is canted, leading to a corbelled bowed oriel on the first and second floors, topped with a gable at the attic. The Academy Street front consists of four bays, also with pilastraded shop fronts at the ground level. The central windows on the first floor feature a sculpted frieze, and there is a central scrolled pediment flanked by urns. The building is topped with a slated mansard roof.
Local climate
1-7 Queensgate, 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 — 5 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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