15-21 Queensgate, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.
15-21 Queensgate, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- muted-pedestal-jay
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 15-21 Queensgate, Inverness, IV1 1DF
- OS grid reference
- NH 666 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47913, -4.22592
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
15-21 Queensgate in Inverness is a building designed by W L Carruthers between 1900 and 1901, showcasing English free style architecture with an ashlar finish. The structure has three storeys, an attic, and a garret, featuring a 15-bay front facing Queensgate. The ground floor includes shopfronts and entrances to the upper floors, which are adorned with pilastered, keyblocked, and pedimented doorpieces. The entrance to the Queensgate Hotel is particularly notable, featuring a pilastered design with a consoled cornice.
The first-floor windows are both architraved and corniced, while the second-floor windows are simply architraved. The building also has pedimented dormers with half-timbering, along with three shaped and two pedimented gablets that have hexagonal garret openings flanked by stumpy columns. The corner of the building at Church Street is canted and rises four storeys, with the Church Street front comprising three bays that feature round-arched windows at the ground floor. The overall design is topped with a mansard roof and a bracketted cornice.
Local climate
15-21 Queensgate, 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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