Summary

A Victorian Gothic town house on the Castle Wynd in Inverness — an 1882 council chamber building above the River Ness, with a onial tower and a staircase used by Lloyd George for a 1921 cabinet meeting.

About this location

Inverness Town House on Castle Wynd was completed in 1882 as the administrative centre of Inverness, designed in the Scottish Baronial style with a turret, crow-stepped gables, and a projecting tower above the street. The building overlooks the River Ness and is flanked by the Castle Hill, where the early-19th-century Inverness Castle (a mock-Baronial sheriff court and museum) stands above the river.

The interior includes a council chamber, committee rooms, and the main staircase with a painted ceiling. The building’s most cited historical moment is a 1921 cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Lloyd George in the council chamber — the only UK cabinet meeting held outside London or Dublin.

For productions, the Town House and the surrounding Castle Wynd area give a complete Highland administrative centre environment: the onial civic building, the river below, the castle hill above, and the Victorian town grid of Inverness extending to the east and north. Highland Council manages the building and the surrounding area.