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Latitude: 57.8147 / 57°48'53"N
Longitude: -4.0549 / 4°3'17"W
OS Eastings: 278013
OS Northings: 882425
OS Grid: NH780824
Mapcode National: GBR J8C2.796
Mapcode Global: WH4DT.PV80
Plus Code: 9C9QRW7W+V2
Entry Name: Slaughterhouse, Shore Road, Tain
Listing Name: Shore Road, Slaughter House
Listing Date: 26 January 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391685
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44944
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391685
Location: Tain
County: Highland
Town: Tain
Electoral Ward: Tain and Easter Ross
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Andrew Maitland, circa 1875. Gabled rectangular-plan slaughter house with castellated Tudor detailing. Stugged squared and snecked stone with ashlar dressings, harled sides; chamfered arrises to openings.
N (SHORE ROAD) ELEVATION: tall, staggered gable to street, corbel table at wallhead, advanced panel to centre of carriage entrance at ground and louvred, pedimented loft door above, ball finial to apex; blank, lower bays flanking with pilaster quoins bearing corbelled panelled dies with cushion bases to ball finials. Screen wall flanking to right, corbel course to wallhead, blocked arrowslit detail and terminating pilaster with corbelled square die and pyramidal cap.
Gablet coped skews with gablet skewputts to centre panel. Grey slates.
A good example of municipal pride expressed through a well-detailed facade.
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