12 Academy Street, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. House.
12 Academy Street, Tain
- WRENN ID
- silver-chamber-ochre
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 777 823
- Coordinates
- 57.81381, -4.0586
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
12 Academy Street is a house from the earlier to mid-19th century, featuring two storeys and an attic, with a wide three-bay façade and a central door. The building is constructed of rubble with painted margins. It has a two-leaf panelled door and two original piended dormers. The windows have two-pane glazing, with ground and first-floor windows facing Rose Place on the east gable. There are end stacks, a slate roof, and a stone ridge.
Local climate
12 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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