School, Tombae is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.

School, Tombae

WRENN ID
riven-hinge-ochre
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 217 256
Coordinates
57.31426, -3.30004
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The site comprises a late 19th-century schoolhouse and a school building dated 1903, located in Tombae. The schoolhouse is a single-storey and attic west-facing building with three bays. It is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A central door is present, along with two canted dormers. The windows have 2-pane and 4-pane glazing, and there are coped end stacks and a slate roof. A plaque inscribed with the letters "WS" is set into the south gable, decorated with a carved leaf.

The school building is rectangular and built against the north gable of the schoolhouse, creating an L-shaped plan. It is a single-storey structure with a long, four-bay north elevation. Construction is of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. An off-centre, corniced entrance is located in the east gable. The west gable features a large tripartite window. A slightly projecting gabled wallhead stack is situated in the centre of the north elevation, flanked by two windows. A cross is set into the gable of the chimney stack. Decorative cast-iron apex finials are present, along with a slate roof featuring decorative pottery ridges and ridge ventilators.

Local climate

School, 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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