Royal Northern Infirmary, Ness Walk, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. 4 related planning applications.

Royal Northern Infirmary, Ness Walk, Inverness

WRENN ID
rough-flint-nightshade
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
Address
Royal Northern Infirmary, Ness Walk, Inverness, IV3 5SF
OS grid reference
NH 663 444
Coordinates
57.47078, -4.23066
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Nurses' Home at the Royal Northern Infirmary in Ness Walk, Inverness, was designed by Ross & Macbeth and built between 1898 and 1899. This two-storey building is constructed in a baronial style using snecked rubble. It has an L-shaped plan that features a circular tower with a conical roof located in the re-entrant angle. The building has rounded corners that are corbelled to square at the first floor, and it is topped with crowstepped gables and a slated roof.

Local climate

Royal Northern Infirmary, 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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