24-26 Tower Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982. Terraced house.

24-26 Tower Street, Tain

WRENN ID
upper-ledge-laurel
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
Terraced house
OS grid reference
NH 779 821
Coordinates
57.81219, -4.05517
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

24-26 Tower Street is a mid-19th century terrace building that was raised to three storeys around 1870-1880. It is constructed of ashlar stone with long and short quoins and features dressings on the first floor. The ground floor has been altered to accommodate shops, with additional windows and doors inserted. One original tripartite window remains on the ground floor at the left, and there are four further windows separating the ground floor doors. The outer bays on the first floor contain two tripartite windows, and a lintel band spans the entire elevation. The third floor rises into the attic, with outer bipartite windows, all topped with finialled gables. There is a central wallhead stack with paired flues, which is corbelled at the third floor cill level, along with end stacks. The building has a slate roof.

Local climate

24-26 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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