Offices, Tower Gardens, 9 Tower Street, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Office building. 2 related planning applications.

Offices, Tower Gardens, 9 Tower Street, Tain

WRENN ID
former-slate-amber
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
Office building
Address
Offices, Tower Gardens, 9 Tower Street, Tain, IV19 1DY
OS grid reference
NH 779 822
Coordinates
57.81269, -4.05631
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at Tower Gardens on Tower Street in Tain, dates from the earlier 19th century and consists of three storeys with three wide bays. It is constructed from rubble with tooled dressings. The central entrance features a door with panelled double leafed doors. To the left on the ground floor, there are tripartite windows, and there are three first-floor windows that are linked by a cill band. The building has three flat-headed dormers that rise through the wallhead, and it features 8 and 16-pane glazing along with end stacks and a slate roof.

Inside, there are some areas of panelling and panelled window shutters. The property is bordered by a low rubble coped retaining wall topped with spearhead cast-iron railings, and there are square channelled ashlar gate piers at the entrance.

Local climate

Offices, Tower Gardens, 9 Tower 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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