Forbes Dispensary, 36 Huntly Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. House.
Forbes Dispensary, 36 Huntly Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- odd-portal-dale
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 663 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47831, -4.23057
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forbes Dispensary, located at 36 Huntly Street in Inverness, was designed by Matthews & Lawrie in 1868. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a rusticated center on the ground floor. It has two storeys and is symmetrical with two bays, slightly advanced at the center. The entrance has a round-arched doorpiece with a carved keystone, while the ground floor windows are architraved and have panelled aprons. On the first floor, the center bay is adorned with paired Corinthian angle pilasters that support an entablature and pediment, with architraved windows that also have aprons. The building is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and it features quoins. The roof is slated. There are rear additions to the building designed by Alexander Ross & Son in 1913.
Local climate
Forbes Dispensary, 36 Huntly 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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