Riverdale, 17 Island Bank Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Villa.
Riverdale, 17 Island Bank Road, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- sombre-turret-grain
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NH 665 438
- Coordinates
- 57.4656, -4.22663
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Riverdale, located at 17 Island Bank Road in Inverness, is a building designed by Alexander Ross in 1864, constructed from ashlar stone. It is two storeys high with a three-bay south front. The central doorpiece features a consoled cornice, while the left ground floor window is a canted bay window, and the right window is bipartite with a consoled cornice. The first floor has round-arched windows, with the outer two being bipartite. The west front also has three bays, with the outer two ground floor windows being tripartite, pilastered, and corniced, while the first floor mirrors the south front's design. The building has bracketted eaves. Surrounding the property are garden walls made of rubble, complemented by ashlar gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Riverdale, 17 Island Bank Road, 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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