Yard And Gatepiers, Kippering House, Shore Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1988.

Yard And Gatepiers, Kippering House, Shore Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
slow-rood-flax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1988
OS grid reference
ND 119 686
Coordinates
58.59686, -3.5168
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a mid-19th century kippering house that includes a fish house, kiln, yard, store, and shop. It is primarily constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings.

The kiln is a tall structure made of rubble, featuring a weatherboard end that is louvred and a long louvred ridge vent on the upper portion of its long elevations. The fish house is adjacent to the kiln and consists of three bays with six-pane sash windows and roof lights beneath a slate roof. It also has a gable loft entrance.

The yard is enclosed by a high harled rubble wall, with simple gatepiers flanking the entrance. The store is a two-storey rectangular building made of rubble, positioned at right angles to the fish house. On the ground floor, a modern narrow three-bay shop has been inserted, flanked by original eight-pane windows in the outer bays on both the ground and first floors. There is a central first-floor gable loft door with a hoist that projects above.

Local climate

Yard And Gatepiers, Kippering House, Shore 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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