Abertarff House, 71 Church Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 May 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Abertarff House, 71 Church Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
fossil-quartz-heath
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 May 1971
Type
House
Address
Abertarff House, 71 Church Street, Inverness, IV1 1EU
OS grid reference
NH 665 454
Coordinates
57.47916, -4.22755
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Abertarff House, located at 71 Church Street in Inverness, dates back to 1593. The building is harled with margins and consists of two storeys. It features a projecting stair tower near the centre, which is corbelled to a square shape at the attic. There is one window to the left and two windows to the right, with a first-floor window on the left that has a gableted dormerhead. The house has crowstepped gables and a slated roof. Inside, on the ground floor, there is a chimney piece dated 1681. The building was restored in 1966.

Local climate

Abertarff House, 71 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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