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Latitude: 57.8139 / 57°48'50"N
Longitude: -4.0574 / 4°3'26"W
OS Eastings: 277864
OS Northings: 882341
OS Grid: NH778823
Mapcode National: GBR J8C2.655
Mapcode Global: WH4DT.NV3M
Plus Code: 9C9QRW7V+H2
Entry Name: Duthac House Care Home, Academy Street, Tain
Listing Name: Academy Street, Former Tain Academy
Listing Date: 25 October 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388206
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41836
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Tain, Academy Street, Duthac House Care Home
ID on this website: 200388206
Location: Tain
County: Highland
Town: Tain
Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: School building
James Smith, 1808/13. Additions; A Maitland and Sons, 1896;
also D MacPherson and Sons, Dingwall, 1935. Simple late
Georgian classical facade. 2 storeys, 7 bays. Ashlar frontage,
rubble flanks with Ashlar dressings,
Centre Doric Pilastered doorpiece with decorative fanlight and
paired panelled doors with reeded detailing. Wide outer bays
advanced with triparties in ground and 1st floors; 1st floor
windows linked by moulded cill course 12-pane glazing.
Mutule cornice; paired cornice stacks; piended slate roof.
Later wing to rear. Later 19th century Hall to rear, rubble;
Diocletian window in each pedimented gable end; slate roof.
Interior: much altered; 1 Corinthian column and 2 pilasters
remain at head of stairs; oval room at 1st floor with original
moulded frieze to ceiling.
1980; conversion to senior citizens residential home.
Unfortunate heavy Portland cement pointing to ashlar.
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