15 Academy Street Inverness, Scotland

Listed Building Data

15 Academy Street has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

Historic Scotland ID
379566 (entity ID)
Building ID
35117
Canmore ID
98134
Category
B
Name
15 Academy Street
Parish
Inverness
County
Highland
Easting
266715
Northing
845389
Date Listed
15 June 1981

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

John Rhind, 1864; refronted and alterations, William Mackintosh, 1872-3. Italianate, ashlar, 3 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical but balanced front to Academy Street. 4 bays with 3rd bay slightly advanced, columned entrance, ground floor windows chamfered and shouldered arched; at 1st floor, windows 1 and 2 corniced, window 3 tripartite with consoled segmental pediment, window 4 bipartite with consoled cornice; at 2nd floor, windows 1 and 2 architraved, window 3 round-arched tripartite, window 4 bipartite and corniced. Advanced bay finished with French pavilion roof and segmental pedimented wallhead dormer with balustrade and flanked by chimney-stacks; 2 canted dormers. Canted south east corner. Union Street front 7 bays, engaged columns with foliated capitals at ground floor windows; at 1st floor, windows corniced and north-east window tripartite with consoled segmental pediment; 2nd floor windows architraved, north-east window tripartite. 3 dormers; slated roof. Additions and alterations, Ross and Macbeth, 1903-04.

Listed Building Statement of Special Interest

Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

Formerly the Royal Hotel.

Listed Building References

Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

INVERNESS ADVERTISER March 25 1864, July 28, 1865; INVERNESS ADVERTISER Dec 27, 1872, Feb 18, 1873; INVERNESS COURIER, Nov 17, 1903, Jan 22, 1904 and information Courtesy of The Buildings of Scotland Research Unit.