18 Shore Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

18 Shore Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
dusk-granite-ivory
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
House
Address
18 Shore Street, Thurso, KW14 8BN
OS grid reference
ND 119 686
Coordinates
58.59701, -3.51634
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

18 Shore Street in Thurso is a 2-storey house dated 1687, featuring an irregular arrangement of bays on its south-facing street front. The exterior is covered in modern harling. A notable feature is the central drum stair tower, which has a conical roof topped with a cast-iron finial that rises above the ridge, and includes a doorway at its base. There is an additional doorway to the right of the tower. The house has windows of various sizes with multi-pane glazing, and the end stacks have been renewed. The roof is made of Caithness slate. At the rear, there is modern fenestration and a single lean-to porch.

Local climate

18 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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