1-17 Union Street, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Commercial. 21 related planning applications.
1-17 Union Street, Inverness
- WRENN ID
- long-postern-heath
- 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
- Address
- 1-17 Union Street, Inverness, IV1 1PP
- OS grid reference
- NH 667 453
- Coordinates
- 57.47881, -4.22443
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-17 Union Street in Inverness is an Italianate building designed by William Lawrie in 1863. It is constructed from ashlar and features three storeys with an attic in the centre. The front facade has 19 bays, with original shopfronts located at Nos 1 and 5 on the ground floor. The central five bays include round-arched bipartite windows on the first floor and pilastered bipartite windows on the second floor. The centre bay is accentuated by channelled strip pilasters and is topped with a segmental pedimented gablet. The building also has four dormers and a balustrade, along with a French pavilion roof.
The outer wings each consist of seven bays, featuring a central arched door and shops on the ground floor. The first and second floors have tripartite windows at the channelled strip pilastered centre bay. The windows are architraved and have balustered aprons on the first floor. The north-east corner is canted and topped with finials and urns. Additionally, there is a two-bay front facing Academy Street, and the building is finished with a bracketed cornice.
Local climate
1-17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 21 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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