Bank Of Scotland, 26 Church Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Bank. 1 related planning application.
Bank Of Scotland, 26 Church Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- burning-hearth-rye
- 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
- Bank
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 26 Church Street, Inverness, IV1 1HX
- OS grid reference
- NH 666 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47854, -4.22618
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 26 Church Street in Inverness, was designed by William Lawrie in 1863 while he was in the office of James Matthews. This Italianate building is constructed of ashlar stone and features three storeys with three-bay fronts facing both Union Street and Church Street.
The corner of the building is marked by a one-bay bowed section that includes a segmental-arched entrance with a columned doorpiece at the ground floor. Above this, the first floor has aediculed windows with segmental pediments, while the second floor showcases windows with lugged architraves. The building is topped with a semi-circular headed gablet flanked by chimneys and adorned with an urn above the cornice.
On the Union Street and Church Street fronts, the ground floor features round-arched windows with carved keystones. The first-floor windows are aediculed, alternating between triangular and segmental pediments, and are complemented by baluster aprons. A cill course runs along the second floor, and the building is finished with a consoled cornice and a balustrade.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 26 Church 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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