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
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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