Station Hotel, 92, 94 High Street, Alness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 December 1997. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.

Station Hotel, 92, 94 High Street, Alness

WRENN ID
proud-loggia-sparrow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 December 1997
Type
Hotel
Address
Station Hotel, 92, 94 High Street, Alness, IV17 0SG
OS grid reference
NH 658 695
Coordinates
57.69543, -4.25174
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Station Hotel, located at 92 and 94 High Street in Alness, was designed by William C. Joass in 1867 and recast by William Mackintosh in 1902. This two-storey and attic hotel features an irregular plan and is built in a Baronial style on a corner site. The exterior is made of rubble sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, showcasing chamfered reveals and crowstepped gables. The first-floor windows extend into the eaves, creating dormerheads.

On the north elevation, the entrance features a doorway with a glazed cast-iron canopy set in a recessed bay at the center, with a single window above it. To the right, there is a bipartite window at ground level, and above it, a tripartite window with a segmental-arched corbel table. A later single window is set in the gablehead. The outer right bay has a circular corner tower with three single windows on the ground and first floors, topped with a swept conical roof adorned with fishscale slate banding. To the left of the entrance, there is an advanced three-bay range, featuring a pedimented doorway and a single window to the outer left bay, with a bipartite window above it. The remaining bays contain single and bipartite windows on both floors.

The west elevation consists of three bays, with single windows on both floors in the gabled bay to the outer left, which has a carved pediment above the first-floor window. The central bay also has single windows on both floors, while the outer right bay features bipartite windows on both floors.

The east and south elevations were not seen in 1997, but they are noted to have two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring corniced gablehead stacks and cast iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1997.

Local climate

Station Hotel, 92, 94 High Street, Alness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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