5-7 High Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.

5-7 High Street, Tain

WRENN ID
sheer-crypt-spring
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1982
Type
Commercial
Address
5-7 High Street, Tain, IV19 1AB
OS grid reference
NH 779 821
Coordinates
57.81181, -4.05512
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5-7 High Street in Tain is a building dating from around 1820. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring four wide bays and is constructed of painted ashlar stone.

The ground floor showcases broad outer channeled pilasters, which continue as paneling on the first floor. The shop front is well-designed and symmetrical, with pilasters and aproned panels beneath the windows. The original central door has been blocked and replaced with a window. The first-floor windows are framed with architraves and have bracketed sills.

The building has an eaves cornice adorned with small pendant moldings between the bays. There are two original piended dormers and end stacks, topped with a slate roof. A notable feature is a fine gilt pestle and mortar sign mounted on a wrought iron bracket.

Local climate

5-7 High 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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