51 and 53 Grant Street, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. 1 related planning application.
51 and 53 Grant Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- steep-clay-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1981
- Address
- 51 and 53 Grant Street, Inverness, IV3 8BP
- OS grid reference
- NH 660 460
- Coordinates
- 57.48474, -4.23539
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
51-57 Grant Street is a classical tenement and shops built between 1821 and 1850. It is two stories tall with an attic and features a distinctive bowed corner bay on an acute-angled junction site. The building is made of red sandstone laid in courses. On the northeast side, there are three windows and four doors on the ground floor, with four windows on the first floor. The bowed corner bay has a piended roof. Architectural details include raised ashlar margins, a banded string course, and a banded eaves course. The roof, covered in grey slate, has three small piended dormers. The three-bay elevation facing Upper Kessock Street includes the lower section of a wallhead chimney stack at the first bay, and to the right, there are square-plan, capped sandstone gatepiers that lead to a courtyard at the rear.
The interior, as observed in 2016, has been reconfigured. The main staircase at 57 Grant Street features a scrolled timber handrail.
Local climate
51 and 53 Grant 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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