Caretaker's Cottage, St Duthus's Collegiate Church, Castle Brae, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Museum.
Caretaker's Cottage, St Duthus's Collegiate Church, Castle Brae, Tain
- WRENN ID
- little-vault-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1982
- Type
- Museum
- OS grid reference
- NH 780 821
- Coordinates
- 57.81209, -4.05461
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Caretaker's Cottage at St Duthus's Collegiate Church in Tain was built by Maitland and Sons in 1884/85. This picturesque, asymmetrical cruciform structure is made of tool ashlar with ashlar dressings. It is a single-storey gabled lodge featuring a gabled porch in the re-entrant. The cottage has a canted bay window on the north side with a panelled apron, round chimneys, and cross finials on the apexes. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with slate.
Local climate
Caretaker's Cottage, St Duthus's Collegiate Church, Castle Brae, Tain receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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