Town Hall, High Street, Inverness

The Town Hall in Inverness, designed by Matthews & Lawrie between 1878 and 1882, showcases a Flemish-Baronial style and is constructed from Overwood sandstone ashlar. The building features two tall storeys and an attic, with a seven-bay front. The central section is slightly advanced, featuring an arched entrance at the ground floor within a gableted porch. Above this, at the first floor, there is a bipartite mullioned and transomed window with trefoil heads set in a square-headed recess, topped with the carved arms of the Burgh of Inverness. The attic includes a gablet with a bipartite window featuring arched lights, flanked by angle finials adorned with heraldic beasts and circular angle turrets topped with tall conical roofs covered in fishscale slates.

The outer windows consist of bipartite mullioned and transomed designs with trefoil-headed lights at the ground floor, and at the first floor, they feature bipartite mullioned and transomed windows with arched lights set beneath continuous arched hoodmoulds. The building also has circular angle bartizans with octagonal caphouses and tall octagonal fishscale slated roofs, a pierced parapet, and a now-truncated spirelet at the center. The west gable displays a panel with the burgh arms from 1686, while the east gable features a panel with the arms of Charles II, both of which were removed from the Old Bridge of Inverness.

Inside, the Town Hall boasts a notable interior with a groin-vaulted vestibule that leads to a staircase illuminated by stained glass windows created by Adam & Small of Glasgow. The public hall features a panelled and painted ceiling along with stained glass windows. The Council Chamber, enlarged in 1894 by John Hinton Gall, includes a panelled ceiling and stained glass commemorating the Diamond Jubilee, designed by J H Stewart and executed by William Meikle & Son of Glasgow in 1898. An extension to the south, designed by James R Rhind in 1904, follows the style of the original building. The front facing Castle Street has three storeys and seven bays, with shops at the ground floor. The transition between the extension and the original structure is masked by a turret that is corbelled out from the wall. The roofs are slated, and ornate cast-iron lamp standards flank the entrance.