Bishop's Palace, Eden Court, Ness Walk, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Villa. 3 related planning applications.

Bishop's Palace, Eden Court, Ness Walk, Inverness

WRENN ID
tall-spandrel-sable
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
Villa
Address
Bishop's Palace, Eden Court, Ness Walk, Inverness, IV3 5NS
OS grid reference
NH 663 447
Coordinates
57.47335, -4.23087
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bishop's Palace, located at Eden Court on Ness Walk in Inverness, is a large asymmetrical Gothic villa designed by Alexander Ross between 1875 and 1878. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a three-bay entrance front where the end bays are advanced and gabled. The left bay includes a rectangular tripartite bay window on the ground floor, a bipartite window on the first floor, and a Gothic light in the attic. The right bay has a tripartite window on both the ground and first floors, along with a Gothic light in the attic. The center of the entrance front is marked by single light windows.

To the right of the main block, there is a recessed three-storey and attic tower that contains an arched entrance, a tripartite window on the second floor, and a rose window in the attic. At the rear of the building, there is a chapel.

Local climate

Bishop's Palace, Eden Court, Ness 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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