2-4 Queensgate, Royal Insurance Building, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. 1 related planning application.

2-4 Queensgate, Royal Insurance Building, Inverness

WRENN ID
shifting-span-smoke
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
Address
2-4 Queensgate, Royal Insurance Building, Inverness, IV1 1DA
OS grid reference
NH 666 454
Coordinates
57.47965, -4.22578
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

6-10 Queensgate in Inverness was designed by Ross & Macbeth and completed in 1894. It features simplified details on the Academy Street, Post Office Lane, and southwest fronts, similar to the previous item.

Local climate

2-4 Queensgate, Royal Insurance Building, 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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  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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