Schoolhouse, Tombae is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.
Schoolhouse, Tombae
- WRENN ID
- buried-forge-sienna
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- OS grid reference
- NJ 217 255
- Coordinates
- 57.31417, -3.30002
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building comprises a late 19th-century schoolhouse and a school building, situated at Tombae. The schoolhouse is a single-storey and attic west-facing dwelling with three bays. It is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A central doorway is present, along with two canted dormers. The windows have 2-pane and 4-pane glazing, with coped end stacks and a slate roof. A plaque inscribed with "WS" is set into the south gable, decorated with a carved leaf.
Adjacent to the schoolhouse, built against its north gable to create an L-shaped plan, is a school building dated 1903. This is a single-storey rectangular structure featuring a long four-bay north elevation, also of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. An off-centre, corniced entrance is located in the east gable, while the west gable has a large tripartite window. A slightly projecting gabled wallhead stack is centrally positioned on the north elevation, flanked by windows. A cross is placed in the chimney gablet. Decorative cast-iron apex finials top the building, and the slate roof includes decorative pottery ridges and ridge ventilators.
Local climate
Schoolhouse, Tombae sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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