5 Market Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House.

5 Market Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
final-sill-tallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 February 1975
Type
House
Address
5 Market Street, Thurso, KW14 8BB
OS grid reference
ND 118 686
Coordinates
58.59639, -3.51878
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5 Market Street in Thurso is an early to mid-18th century, two-storey, three-bay house. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted ashlar margins. The ground floor windows have been slightly enlarged, while there is a small window in the center of the first floor. Additionally, there is a single window on both the ground and first floors of the west gable. The house features unusual later horizontal pane glazing, an end stack with a thack stane, crowsteps, and a Caithness slate roof.

Local climate

5 Market 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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