Thurso Railway Station is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Railway station. 5 related planning applications.
Thurso Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- errant-vault-spring
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Thurso Railway Station, KW14 7DL
- OS grid reference
- ND 112 679
- Coordinates
- 58.59009, -3.52778
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thurso Railway Station, built in 1874 for the Sutherland and Caithness Railway, is a single platform terminal station constructed from snecked sandstone rubble. The station features a gable-ended train shed with single-storey lean-to offices positioned parallel to the platform. The entrance to the platform is located in the gable under a segmental arch, with two round-arched windows to the left and a blind oculus, which may have originally been for a clock, in the gable head. To the right, there is a lower gabled projection that extends the width of the offices, featuring two round-arched windows and a trefoil opening in the gable. The train shed has a boarded gable head and an elliptical arch that extends over the line and platform. The roofs are covered with slate, and there are chimneys in the wall that separates the platform from the offices.
Local climate
Thurso Railway Station 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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