Tower Place, Queen Street, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. House.

Tower Place, Queen Street, Tain

WRENN ID
first-portal-tide
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 779 820
Coordinates
57.81112, -4.05511
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Tower Place is a house located on Queen Street in Tain, built in the earlier part of the 19th century. It is two stories high with an attic and features three bays, including a central door, with two additional bays to the north and a gable end facing the street. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with dressed margins. The main three bays have 16-pane glazing, and there is one original piended dormer on the street side with 8-pane glazing. The house has end stacks and a slate roof. The property is enclosed by a coped rubble wall that is complemented by cast-iron spearhead railings and a small cast-iron gate.

Local climate

Tower Place, Queen 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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