Signal Box, Clachnaharry Station, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 December 1999. 1 related planning application.
Signal Box, Clachnaharry Station, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- still-transept-thistle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1999
- Address
- Signal Box, Clachnaharry Station, Inverness, IV3 8RD
- OS grid reference
- NH 648 465
- Coordinates
- 57.48919, -4.25683
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clachnaharry Railway Swing Bridge, located over the Caledonian Canal in Inverness, was rebuilt in 1909 for the Highland Railway. It is a steel bowed box-girder swing bridge measuring 37.5 meters in length, featuring protective timber starlings on both banks of the canal.
Adjacent to the bridge is a signal box designed by Mackenzie and Holland for the Highland Railway, built in 1890. This two-storey structure has a rectangular plan and is weatherboarded with planks and strips, set on a brick base. It includes a timber forestair leading to a raised doorway in a projecting half-gabled porch. The signal box has continuous fenestration with 4-pane glazing on the track-facing side, which extends to the gables. The roof is made of tin, with projecting eaves and timber bargeboarding. Inside, there is a small mechanical lever frame with four levers labeled 'up', 'down', and 'bridge locks'.
Local climate
Signal Box, Clachnaharry Station, Inverness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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