Munro's Cottage, Tower Gardens, Tower Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. House. 1 related planning application.

Munro's Cottage, Tower Gardens, Tower Street, Tain

WRENN ID
mired-cobalt-owl
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
Munro's Cottage, Tower Gardens, Tower Street, Tain, IV19 1DY
OS grid reference
NH 779 821
Coordinates
57.81218, -4.056
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Munro's Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay house built around 1830. It features a central door and is constructed from coursed dressed rubble with ashlar dressings. The cottage has deep eaves and lying pane glazing. A corniced ashlar stack is located at the center, and the roof is covered with piended slate.

Local climate

Munro's Cottage, Tower Gardens, 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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