Manse House, Manse Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Manse House, Manse Street, Tain
- WRENN ID
- gentle-joist-stoat
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Address
- Manse House, Manse Street, Tain, IV19 1HE
- OS grid reference
- NH 778 821
- Coordinates
- 57.81226, -4.05765
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stables at Manse House on Manse Street in Tain date from around 1800. This two-storey building with an attic features three bays, with the middle bay slightly off-centre. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins, and there is a later 19th-century porch that has a bargeboard design, screening the door and featuring a lozenge-glazed fanlight. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and there are two piended dormers. The building has ashlar-margined end stacks and a slate roof.
Adjacent to the house is a single-storey stable block that has a gable facing the street. This stable is constructed of rubble and includes a ridge stack, apex ball finials, and a slate roof.
The property is enclosed by a low coped retaining wall topped with cast-iron spearhead railings and a matching pedestrian gate. There are later channelled gatepiers that feature a moulded cornice and square caps, as well as coped rubble garden walls.
Local climate
Manse House, Manse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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