5 Tower Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. House.
5 Tower Street, Tain
- WRENN ID
- white-ledge-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 779 822
- Coordinates
- 57.8128, -4.05657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Tower Street in Tain is a mid to late 18th century house that stands two storeys high with an attic and features three bays. The building has a central door and an irregular arrangement of windows. The exterior is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, with chamfered dressed stone margins around the central doorway and a small ground floor window to the right.
The windows on the ground and first floors to the left (east) were enlarged around 1830 to 1840 and now have 16-pane sash designs. The house has two leaf panelled doors and crowsteps on the east gable, which includes the initials IM RF on the street skewputt. The end stacks were renewed around the same time, and there is an early 20th century box dormer. The roof is slate with a stone ridge.
Local climate
5 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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