Crown Primary School, Kingsmills Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Primary school. 2 related planning applications.
Crown Primary School, Kingsmills Road, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- north-cobalt-alder
- 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
- Primary school
- Address
- Crown Primary School, Kingsmills Road, Inverness, IV2 3JT
- OS grid reference
- NH 671 451
- Coordinates
- 57.47688, -4.21737
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Crown Primary School, located on Kingsmills Road in Inverness, was designed by John Rhind and built between 1878 and 1880. This Gothic-style building is two stories high and features an asymmetrical seven-bay front. The five left bays are nearly symmetrical, with advanced and gabled ends that include quadripartite windows. The first-floor windows are pointed arched with plate tracery and hoodmoulds, and there is an off-centre gabled porch. To the right, there are two bays that include a tower set in the re-entrant angle with the advanced left bay. The tower consists of four stages, featuring a pointed-arched entrance door at the lowest stage and tall pointed belfry openings at the top stage, along with a corbelled parapet and a spire that has a bellcast at the eaves. The building also includes mullioned and transomed windows, with coursed stonework and slated roofs. At the rear, there is an infant school, designed by William Mackintosh and built in 1899, which is a single-storey block.
Local climate
Crown Primary School, Kingsmills 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 — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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