Royal Bank Of Scotland Buildings, 19 Union Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
Royal Bank Of Scotland Buildings, 19 Union Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- standing-baluster-amber
- 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
- Bank
- Address
- Royal Bank Of Scotland Buildings, 19 Union Street, Inverness, IV1 1PP
- OS grid reference
- NH 666 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47858, -4.22505
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland Buildings, located at 19 Union Street in Inverness, were designed by W L Carruthers and constructed between 1901 and 1902. This building showcases a Free Renaissance style, featuring Moray freestone ashlar with a base made of Aberdeen grey granite and a channelled ground floor.
The structure has three storeys and an attic, with the Union Street facade consisting of five bays, where the central three bays are slightly recessed. On the ground floor, the central windows are round arched and keyblocked, set back behind engaged columns with polished granite shafts. The end bays feature doorways with lugged architraves and segmental pediments.
On the first floor, the windows are segmental-arched, mullioned, and transomed, adorned with heavily rusticated lugged architraves. The second floor has bipartite windows that are recessed behind columns and pier mullions. The attic includes three segmental-headed wallhead dormer gablets, with the central gablet being higher and featuring a tripartite window topped by an oculus, while the outer gablets have bipartite windows.
The Drummond Street elevation has a similar ten-bay front to that of Union Street, but it includes modern shopfronts at Nos 3, 7, and 9, with all gablets matching the design of the central gablet on Union Street. The building is topped with a bracketted cornice and a mansard roof covered in green Westmoreland slates. Inside, the bank features a coffered ceiling.
Local climate
Royal Bank Of Scotland Buildings, 19 Union 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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