1-7 High Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. House. 5 related planning applications.

1-7 High Street, Inverness

WRENN ID
hidden-mortar-gold
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
1-7 High Street, Inverness, IV1 1HY
OS grid reference
NH 666 452
Coordinates
57.47767, -4.22528
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-7 High Street in Inverness is an astylar Classical building dating from 1812. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features four storeys with a five-bay front. The windows on the first and second floors are framed with architraves and cornices, while the third-floor windows are also architraved. The ground floor has modern shop fronts. There is a cill course on the second floor, along with a cornice and parapet. The building has a bowed corner facing Church Street, which has a four-bay front. Additionally, there are incised Biblical texts on the High Street front, and the glazing has been modernized.

Local climate

1-7 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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