Steading, Manse, Tongue is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 1 related planning application.
Steading, Manse, Tongue
- WRENN ID
- waiting-rubblework-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Address
- Steading, Manse, Tongue, IV27 4XF
- OS grid reference
- NC 591 569
- Coordinates
- 58.47818, -4.41725
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse in Tongue is an 1841-42 L-plan house that stands two storeys high with a dormerless attic. It features an entrance in the southeast re-entrant angle and a symmetrical three-bay west elevation, highlighted by a centrally projecting gabled bay. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A bowed single-storey porch is located in the southeast re-entrant angle, and the outer first-floor windows on the west facade have gabletted pediments. The attic windows are small and symmetrical, and the glazing is primarily 12-pane. The roof has ridge and end corniced stacks, which are set diagonally on square bases, and features crowsteps. The roof is covered with West Highland slate.
The steading is a single-storey L-plan structure made of rubble. It has a loft entrance in the south gable, horizontal air vents, and crowsteps. The roofs are made of local and West Highland slate with simple pyramidal caps. The walls are coped rubble, and there is a pedestrian entrance with granite rounded coping and square dressed granite gate piers.
Local climate
Steading, Manse, Tongue 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.