1-8 Muirtown House, Charleston Place, Inverness

Muirtown House, located at Charleston Place in Inverness, was built between 1800 and 1801 by carpenter Alexander Miller and mason Hugh Suter. The original structure features a 2-storey and basement central block with three bays, connected by single-storey and basement quadrants. The central block is topped by a low first-floor screen wall with blind windows, flanked by slightly advanced single-storey and basement wings that each have a pediment. The basement includes thermal windows, while the ground floor features Venetian windows set in arched recesses. Architectural details include a band course at the ground floor, a string course at the first floor, and a cornice and parapet at the center and quadrants.

A rear wing was added between 1804 and 1805, constructed by Alexander Miller and masons Lewis Yule, John Yule, John McWatt, and Colin Nicolson. The front's central bay is topped by an attic screen wall with a carved pediment, supplied by Robert Burn from Edinburgh in 1805. In 1806, a square plan tower with angle bartizans was added to the center of the rear, built by the same masons.

An idiosyncratic fluted Greek Doric portico was added to the central bay of the front in 1811 by mason Hugh Suter. The east wing, constructed in 1822 by master mason William Symon and carpenter Lachlan Mackintosh, is a single-storey and basement structure. This wing was gothicised in 1827 by William Symon and carpenter Alexander Fraser, which included the addition of a hoodmould 3-light cusped and traceried window and the heightening of square-plan castellated bartizans flanking the gable. A west wing was also added in 1827, designed by William Symon and Alexander Fraser, featuring a single storey and basement in a castellated style with a 3-light ground floor window beneath a Tudor hoodmould.

Further alterations were made between 1830 and 1831 by master mason Alexander Fraser, which included the addition of a spired belfry at the center of the west wing (only the clock stage remains), and a cast-iron lion, sculpted by Anderson in Edinburgh and cast by John Wells in Inverness, was erected at the apex of the east wing (now removed). The interior of the house was remodeled with a new staircase and a Gothic first floor added to the portico, although the pinnacles at the parapet have since been removed. The front of the house was rendered in 1834, and additional alterations and additions were made by James Ross in 1851.