Inverness High School, Montague Row, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. School. 11 related planning applications.
Inverness High School, Montague Row, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- endless-pinnacle-wind
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- Inverness High School, Montague Row, Inverness, IV3 5DZ
- OS grid reference
- NH 659 450
- Coordinates
- 57.47576, -4.23749
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inverness High School, designed by architects Reid and Forbes in 1931, is a modern movement school. It features a long, symmetrical two-storey main block with rear classroom extensions that maintain a similar architectural style. The building is constructed with a reinforced concrete frame and has a central entrance section with seven bays. The wider classroom ranges include taller terminal pylon entrance bays, and additional bays now project from the side elevation.
The main entrance is set in a splayed recess at the center, flanked by pilaster strips and elaborate diamond-detailed doors. Small windows are positioned in a banded wall surface balcony, which has a scalloped cill over the center and pie-crust detailing on the outer sections at the first floor, where it breaks forward to form a porch below. Above this, there is a cornice band and a stepped parapet with a central plinth for a flagstaff.
Classrooms are fitted with long, horizontal windows featuring a metal-framed rectangular glazing pattern, complemented by cill bands and a banded parapet. The entrance blocks are adorned with pilaster strips at the doorways, which include double leaf diamond-detailed doors, and scrolled ironwork in the fanlight and on the balcony above. Similar scrolls in stone are present on the stepped moulded crowning plinth.
Local climate
Inverness High School, Montague Row, 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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- Radon risk assessment
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