Former Town Hall, Tower Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Town hall.
Former Town Hall, Tower Street, Tain
- WRENN ID
- lone-vestry-marsh
- 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
- Town hall
- OS grid reference
- NH 779 821
- Coordinates
- 57.81211, -4.05574
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Town Hall on Tower Street in Tain was designed by Andrew Maitland and Sons and built between 1874 and 1876. This Renaissance-style building features a two-storey façade made of ashlar stone, with a prominent gable front facing Tower Street. The entrance is recessed and located at the top of a flight of steps, sheltered by a convex columned and arched arcade that supports a balcony. Above the entrance is a large round arched opening, flanked by narrow side bays that have windows set in recessed panels on the ground floor. The ground floor windows are mullioned and transomed, while the first-floor windows feature circular tracery under hoodmoulds, all set beneath an arcaded gable. The building is adorned with pinnacles and a central niche. On the west elevation, there are five round-headed two-light mullion and transom windows, which are also set in oblong recessed panels. The roof is covered with slate and topped with tiled cresting.
Local climate
Former Town Hall, Tower Street, 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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