30 Princes Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House.

30 Princes Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
tenth-chapel-dust
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
Address
30 Princes Street, Thurso, KW14 7AA
OS grid reference
ND 115 682
Coordinates
58.59352, -3.52302
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30 Princes Street in Thurso is a tall two-storey house built around 1800, featuring a raised basement and three bays with a central door. At the rear, there is a two-storey and attic, two-bay wing that faces Sir John Square. The exterior is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar. The building includes a basement, a ground floor, a first floor, and a small attic window in the northeast gable. The wing facing Sir John Square has a large modern shop window and piended dormers. The house has 12-pane glazing and corniced end stacks, all topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

30 Princes 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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