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1-7 Queensgate, Inverness

A Category B Listed Building in Inverness Central, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.4794 / 57°28'45"N

Longitude: -4.2254 / 4°13'31"W

OS Eastings: 266662

OS Northings: 845425

OS Grid: NH666454

Mapcode National: GBR H8YY.M75

Mapcode Global: WH4GH.285K

Plus Code: 9C9QFQHF+QR

Entry Name: 1-7 Queensgate, Inverness

Listing Name: 1-13 (Odd Numbers Only) Queensgate and 33 Academy Street

Listing Date: 15 June 1981

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379901

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35343

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Inverness, 1 - 7 Queensgate

ID on this website: 200379901

Location: Inverness

County: Highland

Town: Inverness

Electoral Ward: Inverness Central

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

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Description

Ross & Macbeth, 1895. French Renaissance, coursed masonry. 3 storeys and attic. To Queensgate, 10-bay front with pilastraded shop fronts at ground floor; at 1st floor, 2nd and 7th windows are recessed bows with carved friezes and scroll-pedimented tablets flanked by urns, other windows with hoodmoulds. Corner to Academy Street, canted at ground

floor with corbelled bowed oriel at 1st and 2nd floors gableted at attic. Academy Street front 4 bays, pilastraded shop fronts at ground floor, centre windows with sculpted frieze at first floor, centre scrolled pediment flanked by urns. Slated mansard roof.

Statement of Interest

Queensgate was laid out in 1884 to a plan by Alexander Ross.

INVERNESS COURIER, April 26, 1884

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