Highland Hospice, 1 Bishop's Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.

Highland Hospice, 1 Bishop's Road, Inverness

WRENN ID
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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
House
Address
Highland Hospice, 1 Bishop's Road, Inverness, IV3 5SB
OS grid reference
NH 663 446
Coordinates
57.47253, -4.22995
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Highland Hospice, located at 1 Bishop's Road in Inverness, was built around 1875 in the Italianate style. The building is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and has two storeys. The front features three bays, with the left bay being advanced and gabled. This bay includes a pilastered tripartite window on the ground floor and a Venetian window on the first floor. On the right side, there is a canted pilastered bay window with bowed sides and a parapet on the first floor. The central entrance has a round-arched doorpiece with a bracketed cornice and parapet above it. The first-floor windows on the center and right have round arched lights and gablet dormerheads. The roof is slated.

Local climate

Highland Hospice, 1 Bishop's 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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