16 Olrig Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
16 Olrig Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- upper-steel-khaki
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 Olrig Street, Thurso, KW14 7HF
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 684
- Coordinates
- 58.59514, -3.52196
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Olrig Street in Thurso is a house built in 1834, featuring two storeys and an attic with three bays. The structure is made of rubble with tooled ashlar margins. The southeast front has a central door, and there is a modern single-storey harled lean-to extension that covers a former window on the left side of the ground floor. The house has two later 19th-century canted dormers and a symmetrical three-window facade at the rear, although two of these windows are blind. The gable facing Olrig Street is also symmetrical, with two windows on the ground floor and two on the first floor, one of which was originally a doorway. The windows have four-pane glazing, and the house features coped end stacks and a slate roof. Additionally, there is a high coped rubble garden wall with a pedestrian entrance from Olrig Street, flanked by a single rubble gate pier topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
16 Olrig Street, Thurso sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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