Imperial Bar, 1-9 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. 1 related planning application.

Imperial Bar, 1-9 Academy Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
gentle-footing-spindle
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
Imperial Bar, 1-9 Academy Street, Inverness, IV1 1JN
OS grid reference
NH 667 453
Coordinates
57.47884, -4.22391
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Imperial Bar, located at 1-9 Academy Street in Inverness, is a building from the late 19th century featuring Thomsonesque Aegypto-Greek detailing. It is constructed of ashlar and stands three storeys tall with an attic, comprising five bays that include shop fronts on the ground floor. The first floor has aedicular windows, with a pediment at the center, while the second floor features a pilastrade with recessed bipartite windows. The roof has five pedimented dormers. Decorative elements include incised Greek key and anthemion carvings, an anthemion frieze, and a cornice. The building has a canted corner on the east side topped with a beehive dome, and it presents a five-bay front to Baron Taylor's Street. The roof is slated.

Local climate

Imperial Bar, 1-9 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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