Forbes Fountain, Ladies Walk, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Fountain.
Forbes Fountain, Ladies Walk, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- vast-screen-sparrow
- 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
- Type
- Fountain
- OS grid reference
- NH 664 442
- Coordinates
- 57.46901, -4.22762
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forbes Fountain, located on Ladies Walk in Inverness, was designed by architect A R Henderson from London and sculpted by D & A Davidson between 1879 and 1882. The fountain has undergone significant alterations since its original construction. It is made of granite and features four diagonally set buttresses that resemble a crown spire. These buttresses support a circular basin, from which columns rise to hold a quatrefoil basin at the center.
Local climate
Forbes Fountain, Ladies Walk, 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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