Isobel Fraser Home Of Rest, Mayfield Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 June 1996. Home of rest. 6 related planning applications.

Isobel Fraser Home Of Rest, Mayfield Road, Inverness

WRENN ID
winding-ledge-cedar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 June 1996
Type
Home of rest
Address
Isobel Fraser Home Of Rest, Mayfield Road, Inverness, IV2 4AE
OS grid reference
NH 668 446
Coordinates
57.47248, -4.22208
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Isobel Fraser Home of Rest, located on Mayfield Road in Inverness, was designed by Leslie Grahame Thomson in 1936. This building features a symmetrical, splay-planned block in a Traditionalist or post-Lorimerian Classical style. It has a white smooth-rendered exterior with small-paned casements. The structure includes flat-roofed low wings, one of which contains the main entrance, that splay out from behind a central two-storey block topped with a steep-pitched tiled roof. The upper windows are cut through the eaves. On the southwest garden front, there is a balconied doorway set in a shaped centre gable at the staircase half-landing. A conservatory, donated by Mr and Mrs James Allan, was added in 1959. The chimney stacks also reflect the post-Lorimerian style. Inside, the building is plain yet elegant, featuring full-length corridors and staircase newel posts with sculptured tops.

Local climate

Isobel Fraser Home Of Rest, Mayfield Road, 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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