Highland Regional Council Headquarters, Ardross Street, Inverness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Civic building.

Highland Regional Council Headquarters, Ardross Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
pitched-keep-wax
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
Type
Civic building
OS grid reference
NH 661 448
Coordinates
57.47414, -4.23299
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Highland Regional Council Headquarters, designed by Alexander Ross in 1875-76, is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a Collegiate Gothic style. The slightly advanced center of the building has a crenellated parapet and gable ends, with a pend arch at the center. At either end, there are quadripartite windows on the first floor that connect the ranges, alongside bipartite windows. A string course runs along the first floor, and the first floor windows are adorned with Gothic lights. The attic features cusp-traceried rose windows. Additionally, there is a long south range that is two storeys and an attic high, which includes the former headmaster's house at the southern end. An extension, also designed by Alexander Ross, was added to the west end in 1885.

Local climate

Highland Regional Council Headquarters, Ardross 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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