Inverness Royal Academy, 38-40 Academy Street, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. 6 related planning applications.

Inverness Royal Academy, 38-40 Academy Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
heavy-sentry-moss
Grade
C
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
Inverness Royal Academy, 38-40 Academy Street, Inverness, IV1 1JT
OS grid reference
NH 667 454
Coordinates
57.47965, -4.22471
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Inverness Royal Academy, located at 42-44 Academy Street in Inverness, was built in 1792 and constructed from ashlar stone. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring nine bays with the end pairs set forward. The ground floor has been altered and was modified by Duncan Cameron in 1895 to include shopfronts with a central door. The building has a moulded eaves course and a slated roof, which includes a modern dormer.

Local climate

Inverness Royal Academy, 38-40 Academy 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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