23 Academy Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. House.

23 Academy Street, Tain

WRENN ID
pale-cloister-heron
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
House
Address
23 Academy Street, Tain, IV19 1ED
OS grid reference
NH 778 822
Coordinates
57.81331, -4.05749
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th century, two-storey and attic house located at 23 Academy Street in Tain. The building features three bays with a central door and is harled with ashlar margins. There are tripartite windows in the outer bays on both the ground and first floors. The east gable, facing Rose Street, has one window on each floor. The house includes two original piended dormers and has two and four-pane glazing. It also has end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

23 Academy 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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