Public Library, Margaret Street, Inverness is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. School.

Public Library, Margaret Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
crooked-cloister-owl
Grade
A
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
School
OS grid reference
NH 667 456
Coordinates
57.48103, -4.22451
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Public Library on Margaret Street in Inverness was designed by William Robertson and built between 1839 and 1841. It features a Greek Doric style and is constructed of ashlar stone with a channelled base. The building is a single storey and has a prominent central hexastyle portico with a pediment. It includes four-bay wings with coupled angle pilasters, and the windows are architraved and corniced, displaying marked entasis. At each end of the building, there are recessed entrance porches that also feature coupled angle pilasters and a full entablature, with architraved and pedimented doorpieces. There are some undistinguished additions at the rear of the library.

Local climate

Public Library, Margaret 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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