Cormack's Villa, Tower Gardens, Tower Street, Tain is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982.

Cormack's Villa, Tower Gardens, Tower Street, Tain

WRENN ID
calm-remnant-acorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 October 1982
Address
Cormack's Villa, Tower Gardens, Tower Street, Tain, IV19 1DY
OS grid reference
NH 779 821
Coordinates
57.81232, -4.05601
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Munro's Villa, located on Tower Gardens, Tower Street in Tain, was designed by Thomas Munro in 1902. This pair of semi-detached villas stands three storeys tall and features two bays. The buildings are constructed from sneck coursed stugged rubble with harled flanks and ashlar dressings.

The centre bays are advanced gables, each featuring a two-storey canted bay window adorned with a decorative frieze and topped with a Cumbrian fish-scale slate roof. Each villa has original glazed porches situated in the re-entrant angles, complete with panelled doors and cast-iron brattishing. There is a single piended dormer that rises through the wallhead of each house, and both villas retain their original rhones and down-pipes. The buildings have end stacks and a slate roof.

In front of the villas, there are two pairs of earlier 19th-century square ashlar gate piers, which have fluted and corniced caps. The property is also enclosed by cast-iron gates and overthrows, along with a low coped retaining wall topped with spearhead cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Cormack's Villa, Tower Gardens, 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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