Head Office, Caledonian Bank, 9-11 High Street, Inverness is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1971. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.
Head Office, Caledonian Bank, 9-11 High Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- scattered-nave-bistre
- Grade
- A
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- Head Office, Caledonian Bank, 9-11 High Street, Inverness, IV1 1HY
- OS grid reference
- NH 666 452
- Coordinates
- 57.47783, -4.2251
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Head Office of the Caledonian Bank, located at 9-11 High Street in Inverness, was designed by Mackenzie & Matthews in 1847. This impressive building is constructed of painted channelled ashlar and stands three storeys tall with a five-bay front. The advanced ground floor is divided into five bays by piers that support a cornice and parapet, which are adorned at the ends with large vases featuring carved medallion portraits of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort. The end bays display round-arched key-blocked doorways with wrought-iron gates.
In the central bays, the ground floor showcases a tetrastyle giant Corinthian order topped with a pediment that includes a tympanum featuring carved allegorical figures by A Handyside Ritchie. The first and second floors are also divided into five bays by giant Corinthian pilasters, with aprons containing carved swags located below the second-floor windows. The building is finished with a cornice and balustrade. The interior underwent alterations by R Carruthers-Ballantyne & Taylor in 1925.
Local climate
Head Office, Caledonian Bank, 9-11 High Street, 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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- Related listed building consents — 7 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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