Foundry Offices, 96-104 Academy Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.

Foundry Offices, 96-104 Academy Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
peeling-lancet-gold
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
Type
Commercial building
Address
Foundry Offices, 96-104 Academy Street, Inverness, IV1 1LU
OS grid reference
NH 665 455
Coordinates
57.48057, -4.22722
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Foundry Offices, located at 96-104 Academy Street in Inverness, were designed by Ross and Macbeth in 1893 in the French Renaissance style. The building is constructed from snecked rubble with freestone dressings and stands three storeys tall with a three-bay front. The façade is divided by a giant pilastrade and features three shopfronts on the ground floor, which have been altered for office use. The first floor showcases bowed tripartite windows with an ornamental frieze and broken scrolled pediments. The second floor has tripartite windows beneath gablets, which contain arched tympana filled with tiled depictions of industrial activity. Additionally, the Rose Street front is a gabled one-bay continuation of the Academy Street front.

Local climate

Foundry Offices, 96-104 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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