1 Janet Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House.
1 Janet Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- narrow-bracket-sable
- 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
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 682
- Coordinates
- 58.59279, -3.52082
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Janet Street in Thurso is a house built between 1800 and 1810. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features a wide three-bay design. The exterior is made of tooled ashlar stone with polished ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins. The front elevation is painted, while the northeast gable and rear are constructed from rubble. The ground floor masonry has been repaired with rendering that mimics ashlar.
The entrance is a round-headed doorway with a keystone, set within a shallow pilastered and corniced doorpiece. It includes a fanlight and a double-leaf door. The first-floor windows are shorter and have blind cruciform motifs in the outer bays, with shallow round-headed niches flanking the central window. There are two flat-roofed canted dormers. The northeast gable features three ground floor windows, with the outer ones blocked, and three smaller windows on the first floor, plus a diminutive attic window in the center. All first-floor windows have 12-pane glazing and are connected by a cill band, while the ground floor windows have four-pane glazing. The house has corniced end stacks and a slate roof.
To the left of the house, there is a pilastered screen wall with a blocked door, a window, and a slapped garage door.
Local climate
1 Janet 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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