Porter's Lodge, Royal Northern Infirmary, Ness Walk, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 September 1999. Porter's lodge.
Porter's Lodge, Royal Northern Infirmary, Ness Walk, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- silent-flue-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 September 1999
- Type
- Porter's lodge
- OS grid reference
- NH 663 445
- Coordinates
- 57.47139, -4.22995
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Porter's Lodge at the Royal Northern Infirmary in Ness Walk, Inverness, was designed by Mackenzie and Matthews and built between 1854 and 1855. This single-storey lodge features classical detailing and is constructed from ashlar masonry. The east elevation, facing the public road, has three bays, with a slightly advanced gabled bay at the center. This gabled bay includes broad pilasters flanking a panelled door, and a clock set in a keystoned semicircular recess above. The flanking windows have architraves that extend down to frame aprons.
On the south elevation, which faces the main drive, there is another advanced gabled bay that features a canted window. The roof sweeps down in a re-entrant angle towards the center. The lodge is fitted with timber sash and case windows that have a 4-pane glazing pattern. It also has stone stacks and is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
Porter's Lodge, Royal Northern Infirmary, Ness Walk, 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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