The Firs, 2 Dores Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. House.

The Firs, 2 Dores Road, Inverness

WRENN ID
hushed-porch-thyme
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
House
OS grid reference
NH 658 431
Coordinates
57.45883, -4.23849
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Firs, located at 2 Dores Road in Inverness, is an Italianate building dating from around 1860. It is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and has two storeys. The entrance front, facing east, features three bays with round-arched tripartite windows in the outer bays. The centre bay is recessed and includes a columned porch with a segmental-arched entrance, flanked by a round-headed arched window. The east bays of the flanks are designed as canted bay windows. There is a band course at the first floor level and quoins are present on the corners. The interior is lavishly detailed. The garden wall is made of ashlar, and there are gatepiers that exhibit banded rustication.

Local climate

The Firs, 2 Dores Road, 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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