Station Hotel, 18 Academy Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Hotel.
Station Hotel, 18 Academy Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- peeling-moat-blackthorn
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Station Hotel, 18 Academy Street, Inverness, IV1 1LE
- OS grid reference
- NH 667 454
- Coordinates
- 57.47946, -4.22344
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Station Hotel, located at 18 Academy Street in Inverness, was originally designed by possibly Joseph Mitchell around 1855, with significant alterations made by Matthews and Lawrie between 1858 and 1859. This Italianate building is constructed of ashlar and stands three storeys tall.
The north-west front features seven bays, with the fourth and fifth bays slightly advanced. It has channelled angle strip pilasters, and the windows on the ground and first floors are architraved and corniced. The fourth and fifth windows on the ground floor are tripartite. At the north end, there is a four-storey tower with round-arched, key-blocked pilastered windows, topped with a bracketted cornice, a pediment, a balustrade, and a French pavilion roof. Additionally, there is a diagonally placed Roman Doric portico designed by Alexander Ross in 1898.
The south-west front also has three storeys and features a four-storey tower at the south-east corner. The centre is recessed, with a central tripartite bay on the ground floor. To the south-east, there is a screen arch leading to Falcon Square, which includes a bracketted cornice and balustrade. The main cornice is also bracketted. The interior of the hotel is quite lavish, particularly in the hall and staircase areas.
Local climate
Station Hotel, 18 Academy 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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