23 Riverside Place, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House.

23 Riverside Place, Thurso

WRENN ID
little-parapet-rowan
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Type
House
OS grid reference
ND 118 683
Coordinates
58.59376, -3.5189
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

23 Riverside Place in Thurso is a building dating from around 1800 that has been significantly modernised. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features a two-bay gable facing Riverside Place. The building has irregular four-bay elevations at the rear, which face north and south, and is divided into two dwellings. The exterior is mainly rendered, with symmetrical window arrangements on the Riverside gable. The rear has some modern windows, and the roof is covered with modern artificial slate.

Local climate

23 Riverside Place, 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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