Shelter, Old Edinburgh Court, Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. Court, archway.

Shelter, Old Edinburgh Court, Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness

WRENN ID
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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
Court, archway
OS grid reference
NH 672 442
Coordinates
57.46901, -4.21461
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Shelter at Old Edinburgh Court on Old Edinburgh Road in Inverness was designed by William Lawrie between 1859 and 1860. This building features a harled exterior and consists of two storeys and an attic, with a total of twelve bays. The outer bays are advanced and gabled, while the central three bays are higher and more prominent, forming a three-storey, three-bay block with a slightly recessed centre flanked by gabled outer bays. The central three bays have tripartite windows on the ground and first floors, and the second floor features a window with gabletted dormerheads. There are modern dormers on the wings, and the building has a slated roof. A modern entrance is located at the centre, and there is an archway at the entrance dated 1860, which is harled with ashlar dressings. This archway includes a small gabled block with strongly battered buttresses and a round-arched, key-blocked pend.

Local climate

Shelter, Old Edinburgh Court, Old Edinburgh Road, 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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