18-20 Baron Taylor's Street, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 December 1999. Commercial building.

18-20 Baron Taylor's Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
low-roof-cedar
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 December 1999
Type
Commercial building
OS grid reference
NH 667 453
Coordinates
57.4783, -4.22473
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18-20 Baron Taylor's Street in Inverness is a later 19th-century building that features a symmetrical three-storey structure with an attic and a three-bay gabled design, forming part of a terrace with a shop on the ground floor. The exterior is made of squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone, with ashlar dressings. It has a base course, a corniced shop front, and cill courses, along with linked architraved hoodmoulds on the first and second floors. The gablehead is shaped, and the openings on the first and second floors are stop-chamfered, with sandstone mullions.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a three-bay glazed shop front at the ground level, with single windows in each bay on the first floor. The second floor features bipartite windows flanking a central bipartite window set in a round-arched recess, which is located in the shaped gablehead above.

The southeast elevation was not visible in 1999. It includes a plate glass shop front and timber sash and case windows with stained and leaded lower sections on the first floor, while the upper floors have plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has stone-coped skews, along with a coped apex stack. The interior was not seen in 1999.

Local climate

18-20 Baron Taylor's 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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