18-30 Queensgate, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Commercial building. 14 related planning applications.
18-30 Queensgate, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- broken-plaster-cobweb
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 18-30 Queensgate, Inverness, IV1 1DJ
- OS grid reference
- NH 665 454
- Coordinates
- 57.47929, -4.22681
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18-30 Queensgate in Inverness is a building designed by Ross & Macbeth in 1885, showcasing a Free Italianate style. It stands three storeys tall with an attic and features a nine-bay front facing Queensgate, where the central and end bays are pilastered. The ground floor has Ruskinian Gothic arcaded shopfronts, with columns that support consoles carrying wrought-iron balconies on the first floor. The end windows on the first floor are corbelled out from the wall, forming canted bays with balustraded parapets, while the second and eighth windows have segmental pediments. On the second floor, the windows are architraved, and the first and ninth windows are tripartite. The corners are canted and pilastered, with balustered balconies corbelled out from the wall below the first floor windows.
The building also has a front facing Church Street, which features arched ground floor windows and consoled balconies at the first floor windows. The front to Post Office Lane has a simply arcaded ground floor, and the north-east front also includes arcaded ground floor windows. The roof is a slated mansard style with pedimented dormers.
Local climate
18-30 Queensgate, 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 — 14 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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