Merkinch Primary School, Telford Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Primary school. 7 related planning applications.
Merkinch Primary School, Telford Road, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- moated-tallow-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Primary school
- Address
- Merkinch Primary School, Telford Road, Inverness, IV3 8HY
- OS grid reference
- NH 658 459
- Coordinates
- 57.48343, -4.23906
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Merkinch Primary School, located on Telford Road in Inverness, was built in 1876, likely designed by Alexander Ross. This single-storey school has an extended H-plan layout and features a bellcote and gabled elevations. It is constructed from pink squared, snecked rubble with yellow ashlar dressing.
The main front is long and symmetrical, consisting of six central bays with two doors at the centre and windows that have pointed heads. This is flanked by wider, advanced gabled cross wings, each displaying hoodmoulded stepped tripartite windows and five-bay side elevations. The lower entrance bays are recessed beyond the wings. The gable heads feature trefoil, louvred openings, while the skews are adorned with kneelers and gablet skew putts. The school also has a gabled bellcote and slate roofs with gabled ventilators. The rear blocks share similar architectural details, although some modern additions have been made.
Adjacent to the school is a schoolhouse built in 1896, which is a two-storey L-plan house that reflects the design of the school. It includes a porch in the re-entrant angle and a canted window with tripartite windows above in the southwest-facing gable, along with tripartite windows on both floors to the east of the porch. The schoolhouse also has a slate roof and is complemented by a low retaining wall with cast iron railings.
Local climate
Merkinch Primary School, Telford 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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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
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