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Latitude: 57.8121 / 57°48'43"N
Longitude: -4.0557 / 4°3'20"W
OS Eastings: 277958
OS Northings: 882136
OS Grid: NH779821
Mapcode National: GBR J8C2.DY1
Mapcode Global: WH4DT.NXX0
Plus Code: 9C9QRW6V+VP
Entry Name: Former Town Hall, Tower Street, Tain
Listing Name: Tower Street Former Town Hall
Listing Date: 29 October 1982
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388307
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41918
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Tain, Tower Street, Former Town Hall
ID on this website: 200388307
Location: Tain
County: Highland
Town: Tain
Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Andrew Maitland and Sons, 1874-76. Renaissance former Town Hall. Ashlar 2 storey, 2 bay gable front to Tower Street with recessed centre entrance at head of flight steps under convex columned and arched arcade supporting balcony. Large round arched opening above; narrow side bays with windows in recessed panels to ground floor. Mullioned and transomed to ground floor: circular tracery to 1st floor windows under hoodmoulds with arcaded gable. Pinnacles above, and central niche. 5 round headed 2-light mullion and transom windows set in oblong recessed panels to west elevation. Slate roof with tiled cresting.
Property of Royal Hotel Tain. Converted for use as Picturehouse Cinema in the 1920s.
List Description updated as part of the Cinemas Thematic Study 2007-08.
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