Slaughterhouse, Shore Road, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1998. Slaughter house.
Slaughterhouse, Shore Road, Tain
- WRENN ID
- wild-brick-heath
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1998
- Type
- Slaughter house
- OS grid reference
- NH 780 824
- Coordinates
- 57.81472, -4.05496
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a slaughterhouse located on Shore Road in Tain, designed by Andrew Maitland around 1875. It features a gabled rectangular plan with castellated Tudor detailing. The exterior is constructed from stugged squared and snecked stone, with ashlar dressings and harled sides, and has chamfered arrises around the openings.
On the north elevation facing Shore Road, there is a tall, staggered gable that presents to the street, complete with a corbel table at the top of the wall. The central carriage entrance at ground level is accentuated by an advanced panel, and above it is a louvred loft door set within a pediment, topped with a ball finial at the apex. The lower bays on either side are blank and feature pilaster quoins that support corbelled panelled dies with cushion bases, also topped with ball finials. To the right, there is a screen wall with a corbel course at the wallhead, which includes a blocked arrowslit detail and a terminating pilaster with a corbelled square die and pyramidal cap.
The gablet skews are coped, with gablet skewputts at the centre panel, and the roof is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
Slaughterhouse, Shore Road, 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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