Balnagown Hotel, Queen Street, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.

Balnagown Hotel, Queen Street, Tain

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1982
Type
Hotel
Address
Balnagown Hotel, Queen Street, Tain, IV19 1AP
OS grid reference
NH 780 819
Coordinates
57.81083, -4.05457
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Balnagown Hotel, located on Queen Street in Tain, is an early 19th-century building featuring two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It is constructed of coursed rubble with rubble flanks and ashlar dressings. The ground floor has four windows, with a central door and two flanking windows that are obscured by a large glazed porch. The building retains three original piended dormers, each with 6-pane glazing, and some 12-pane glazing is still present. It has end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Balnagown Hotel, Queen 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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