Tongue House is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Tongue House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-cobble-peregrine
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tongue House, IV27 4XH
- OS grid reference
- NC 591 587
- Coordinates
- 58.49412, -4.41803
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tongue House is a house dated 1678 and 1750. It features a three-storey, four-bay crow-stepped block that faces east and west, with extensive single-storey and two-storey wings to the northwest, creating an L-shaped main entrance front that faces northwest. The building is constructed of harled or harl pointed rubble with ashlar dressings.
The west elevation of the three-storey main block includes a 19th-century gabled two-storey porch located near the center. There is also a heavily buttressed single-storey and attic wing with seven bays that runs at right angles and features six swept dormers that rise through the wallhead.
On the east garden front, there is an entrance near the center of the first floor, which is accessed by a flight of steps and has a rubble parapet that oversails the ground floor. The fenestration is asymmetrical, with three narrow first-floor windows positioned close to the wallhead.
The gate piers consist of a plain square pair made of dressed rubble, featuring 12-pane glazing, a cornice ridge, and end stacks, along with crowsteps and local slate roofs.
Local climate
Tongue House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Radon risk assessment
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