3 High Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Commercial building.

3 High Street, Tain

WRENN ID
long-pedestal-clover
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 building
Address
3 High Street, Tain, IV19 1AB
OS grid reference
NH 779 821
Coordinates
57.81185, -4.05527
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

3 High Street in Tain is a building dating from around 1830. It has two storeys and an attic, with a three-bay façade made of painted ashlar stone. The building features a well-designed symmetrical shop front with pilasters and two round-arched doorways. The first floor has bold long and short dressings at the angles and around the window margins. There is an eaves band and cornice, along with a central piended dormer and a pair of later canted dormers on the outer sides. The windows are 4-pane sashes, and there are panelled end stacks, one of which is truncated. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

3 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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