24 Sinclair Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1979. House.
24 Sinclair Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- roaming-tin-ivory
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 115 681
- Coordinates
- 58.59226, -3.5235
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, wide three-bay house located at 24 Sinclair Street in Thurso. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with contrasting tooled long and short dressings. The main southeast front features a central door that is covered by a shallow square flat-roofed porch with a round-headed entrance. Above the ground floor, there is a flush band course. The northwest facade is symmetrical with three bays, including a blocked central door facing Sinclair Street, and has one ground floor window and two first floor windows, one of which is blind. The house has 12-pane glazing, renewed end stacks, and a piended platform slate roof.
Local climate
24 Sinclair 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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