6 Stafford Street, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982.

6 Stafford Street, Tain

WRENN ID
scarred-roof-plum
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1982
Address
6 Stafford Street, Tain, IV19 1BE
OS grid reference
NH 781 818
Coordinates
57.80937, -4.05215
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Stafford Street in Tain is an early 19th century building comprising three two-storey houses with attics, each featuring three bays and central doors. The exterior is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled margins, and some sections are painted. The houses have four-pane sash windows, end and ridge stacks, and slate roofs.

Number 4 has a painted lintel course at the ground floor, a double-leaf panelled door, a modern box dormer, and a piended roof. The gable facing Duke Street is harled with painted margins.

Number 6 features two canted dormers and a double-leaf panelled door.

Number 8 also has a double-leaf panelled door and two small original piended dormers with original six-pane glazing. There is a small attic window on the gable facing Petley Street.

Local climate

6 Stafford 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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