Waverley Hotel, 4-8 High Street, Nairn is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. 4 related planning applications.

Waverley Hotel, 4-8 High Street, Nairn

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1981
Address
Waverley Hotel, 4-8 High Street, Nairn, IV12 4BJ
OS grid reference
NH 882 563
Coordinates
57.5837, -3.87061
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Waverley Hotel, located at 14 High Street in Nairn, was built in 1877 and designed in the style of Matthews and Laurie from Inverness. This three-storey building with an attic features an eight-bay classical facade. The exterior is made of finely stugged coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

The central two bays project slightly at the first and second floors, culminating in a gabled pediment adorned with a scrolled crest and antefixae. The outer bays contain doors, which have been glazed as windows, and feature stilted heads with bracketed cornices that support a balustrade above the outer first-floor window.

All first-floor windows are architraved and corniced, complete with apron panels. The two central and outer windows are embellished with enriched shell pediments, and all are connected by a band course with guilloche moulding. The second-floor windows have lugged architraves and bracketed cills, with the two central windows featuring segmental pediments.

Additional architectural details include cast-iron bracket rhones, four modern box dormers, corniced stacks, and a slate roof. The ground floor has modern shop facades, and there is an arched entrance leading to a side passage.

Local climate

Waverley Hotel, 4-8 High Street, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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