23 And 25 High Street, Tain is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. House. 5 related planning applications.
23 And 25 High Street, Tain
- WRENN ID
- still-pilaster-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23 And 25 High Street, Tain, IV19 1AE
- OS grid reference
- NH 780 820
- Coordinates
- 57.81163, -4.05444
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
23 and 25 High Street in Tain is an early 19th-century building that stands three stories tall with an attic, featuring three wide bays. The ground floor has shops, while the dwelling is located above. The building has an ashlar frontage that is painted at the ground level, with harled flanks and a south elevation that includes painted dressed stone margins. There are two doors with flanking shop windows, with No 25 having been modernised. Band courses separate the storeys, and there is a cill course for the first and second-floor windows, along with an eaves course. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and there is one original central piended dormer with 6-pane glazing.
On the south elevation, which offers a view of the hill, the building has two storeys and an attic over a basement, also with three bays. A substantial central stair tower features a pilastered doorpiece and a panelled double-leaf door. There are two piended dormers with 2-pane glazing, a stair window, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
23 And 25 High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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