Gatepiers, Tongue House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
Gatepiers, Tongue House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cinder-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NC 591 586
- Coordinates
- 58.49326, -4.41832
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The garden walls at Tongue House include a pair of later 18th century polished ashlar rusticated gate piers, which feature moulded copes and shaped finials. The property is enclosed by coped rubble walls, with a simple entrance at the northwest that leads to the boathouse and pier.
Local climate
Gatepiers, 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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