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23 High Street, Inverness

A Category B Listed Building in Inverness Central, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.4779 / 57°28'40"N

Longitude: -4.2245 / 4°13'28"W

OS Eastings: 266714

OS Northings: 845259

OS Grid: NH667452

Mapcode National: GBR H8YY.TXK

Mapcode Global: WH4GH.29MP

Plus Code: 9C9QFQHG+56

Entry Name: 23 High Street, Inverness

Listing Name: 21 and 23 High Street and 1-21 (Odd Numbers Only) Lombard Street, and Baron Taylor's Street

Listing Date: 15 June 1981

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 379793

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35253

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200379793

Location: Inverness

County: Highland

Town: Inverness

Electoral Ward: Inverness Central

Traditional County: Inverness-shire

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Description

Matthews & Lawrie, 1878-9. Flemish Baronial, ashlar, 3

storeys and attic. 5-bay front to High Street, modern

shopfronts flanking pend at ground floor, 1st floor windows

set in shouldered-arched recesses borne on slender columns

with foliated capitals; 2nd floor windows architraved with

centre window framed by engaged columns with foliated

capitals, borne on corbels and surmounted by gablet

ornamented with carved Royal Arms and surmounted by circular

coped chimney finial. Circular angle turrets, corbelled out

from wall at 2nd floor with crosslet openings at attic

level and finished with conical fish-scale slated roofs with wrought-iron finials. 2 dormers. Parapet with curvilinear

crenellations. N front (to Lombard Street) 3- bays, 3

dormers. W front (to Lombard Street) linked to N front by

canted angle bay with turret corbelled out from wall,

turret circular at 2nd floor, octagonal roof, fish-scale

slated with wrought-iron finial. W front, 3 storeys and

attic. 11 bays, shops at ground floor; corbelled rope-moulded

string course at 1st floor; 2nd, 6th and 10th of 2nd floor

windows surmounted by chimneyed gablets, other windows at

2nd floor surmounted by segmental pediments with urn finials.

NW angle chamfered with circular angle turret, conical

fish-scale slated roof. N front (to Baron Taylor's Street),

2-bay original shopfront ground floor, attic window with

cornice and strapwork.

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