2 Knockbreck Road, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. House.
2 Knockbreck Road, Tain
- WRENN ID
- solemn-roof-bracken
- 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 782 817
- Coordinates
- 57.80881, -4.0514
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Knockbreck Road in Tain is an early 19th century house featuring two storeys and an attic. The building has three bays, with a central door and a single-storey byre wing attached to the east gable. It is constructed of sneck harled rubble with ashlar dressings, while the west gable is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar. The house includes a glazed porch and two original piended dormers with four-pane glazing, as well as end stacks and a slate roof. Adjacent to the house is a larger, earlier to mid-19th century two-storey, four-bay rubble farm building positioned at right angles and facing Gower Street. This farm building features a blocked basket-arched pend and an inserted shop window on its north gable, which faces Knockbreck Road.
Local climate
2 Knockbreck Road, 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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