Inland Revenue Office, 1-3 Young Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Building complex.
Inland Revenue Office, 1-3 Young Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- iron-glass-lark
- 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
- Building complex
- OS grid reference
- NH 664 451
- Coordinates
- 57.4765, -4.22841
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Inland Revenue Office, located at 1-3 Young Street in Inverness, was designed by Alexander Ross and built between 1883 and 1884. This baronial-style building is constructed from snecked rubble and features three storeys, along with a four-storey corner block. The ground floor includes shopfronts, with the original shopfront located at No 3 Ness Walk.
The front facing Nos 1-6 Ness Walk has four bays, with bipartite windows on the first floor. The second floor features tripartite windows for the first and second windows, both topped with gablets, while the second window has a crowstepped gable with a chimney. The third and fourth windows have gableted dormerheads.
The corner block has a two-bay front facing Ness Walk, with third-floor windows that also have gableted dormerheads. The canted corner is corbelled to a square at the second floor, supported by a granite column at the angle. On the Young Street side, the third floor features a crowstepped gablet with an oriel window and a window with a gabletted dormerhead.
No 3 Young Street has a two-bay front, with the right first-floor window being bipartite and the second-floor windows featuring gabletted dormerheads.
Local climate
Inland Revenue Office, 1-3 Young 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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