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La Scala Picture House, 60-66 Academy Street, Inverness

A Category B Listed Building in Inverness Central, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.48 / 57°28'48"N

Longitude: -4.2254 / 4°13'31"W

OS Eastings: 266663

OS Northings: 845494

OS Grid: NH666454

Mapcode National: GBR H8YY.M6W

Mapcode Global: WH4GH.2852

Plus Code: 9C9QFQJF+2R

Entry Name: La Scala Picture House, 60-66 Academy Street, Inverness

Listing Name: 60-66 Academy Street

Listing Date: 2 October 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390207

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43639

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kelso's La Scala Picture Palace

ID on this website: 200390207

Location: Inverness

County: Highland

Town: Inverness

Electoral Ward: Inverness Central

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

Tagged with: Cinema

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Description

Corner-site tenement block including shops at ground and offices above, designed by the practise of William Macintosh, whose office moved there on completion of the building in April, 1898. The same office is occupied - 1996 - by the successor practise of Thomas Munro and Co. Free renaissance and elaborate; dressed red ashlar (mostly painted at ground); framed construction (presumably); 3 storeys plus attic with 2-storeyed window bays setbetween stanchions; plate glass sash and case windows, red-tiled and stone-dormered mansard roof with tourelle-like lantern over oriel-windowed corner; elevations otherwise symmetrical.

5 bays, 3-bay flank to Strothers Lane. Inside, architects? office largely unchanged.

Statement of Interest

A rare class of building, being one designed by an architect for his own use. One tradition claims the designer to have been Thomas Munro, who worked with Macintosh in 1898.

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