60 High Street, Inverness is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1976. Commercial building. 8 related planning applications.
60 High Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- salt-landing-candle
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1976
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 60 High Street, Inverness, IV1 1JE
- OS grid reference
- NH 668 452
- Coordinates
- 57.47799, -4.22288
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
60 High Street in Inverness is a classic building constructed between 1841 and 1844, featuring an ashlar facade. It stands three storeys tall and has a three-bay centre where the first and second floors are recessed, showcasing a giant Ionic distyle in antis order. The first-floor windows are corniced and have panelled aprons. The centre is connected by slightly recessed narrow bays that are one window wide to broader end bays, which also have first-floor windows with consoled cornices and panelled aprons. The ground floor is arcaded at the centre, with modern shopfronts at the ends. The building is topped with a cornice and a blocking course.
Local climate
60 High 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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