Station, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 October 1978. Railway station. 2 related planning applications.
Station, Tain
- WRENN ID
- rough-frieze-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1978
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Station, Tain, IV19 1JA
- OS grid reference
- NH 781 823
- Coordinates
- 57.81429, -4.05191
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a railway station in Tain, designed by Joseph Mitchell and Co in 1864. It is a single-storey structure with an H-plan layout, constructed from rubble with tooled dressings.
The station features a seven-bay frontage facing Station Road, with a wide recessed central bay that includes angle pilasters and a pair of slender cast-iron columns. This central bay is flanked by two narrow bays and end gables that contain tripartite windows.
On the platform side, the station has block pedimented tripartite windows in the end gables, which are connected by a canopy supported by six cast-iron columns that are similar to those on the street facade. The windows are fitted with two and four-pane sashes, and the building has squat ridge and end stacks, topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Station, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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