Meadow Well, Mansons Lane, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. Well house.
Meadow Well, Mansons Lane, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- white-brass-jackdaw
- 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
- Well house
- OS grid reference
- ND 117 683
- Coordinates
- 58.59412, -3.52066
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Meadow Well, located on Mansons Lane in Thurso, was built in 1823. It is a circular well house made of rubble with a finely finished ashlar conical roof that ends with a simple finial marked with the date. The entrance is on the west side, facing the street. Inside, there is a well and a pump.
Local climate
Meadow Well, Mansons Lane, 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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