Columba Hotel, Ness Walk, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Hotel. 12 related planning applications.

Columba Hotel, Ness Walk, Inverness

WRENN ID
lone-terrace-ivy
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
Hotel
Address
Columba Hotel, Ness Walk, Inverness, IV3 5NF
OS grid reference
NH 664 450
Coordinates
57.47624, -4.22858
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Columba Hotel, located on Ness Walk in Inverness, was designed by Alexander Ross in 1881 and showcases a free Baronial style. The building has three storeys and an attic, featuring a three-bay front with a slightly recessed center that is topped with a gablet. The outer bays are finished with broad gables. The ground floor has been altered, while the first floor boasts a continuous corbelled balcony. The first-floor windows are canted bays, adorned with foliated capitals at the mullion and pilasters, and are topped with wrought-iron balustrades. An extension was added in 1938 in a neo-Baronial style, which consists of four storeys.

Local climate

Columba Hotel, Ness Walk, 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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