Old Mill Theatre, Millbank, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. Former mill and miller's house, theatre. 4 related planning applications.
Old Mill Theatre, Millbank, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- stranded-oriel-jet
- 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
- Former mill and miller's house, theatre
- Address
- Old Mill Theatre, Millbank, Thurso, KW14 8PS
- OS grid reference
- ND 115 677
- Coordinates
- 58.58881, -3.52258
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Mill Theatre, located on Millbank in Thurso, dates from around 1800. It is a roughly T-shaped, two- and three-storey structure that includes a former mill and the former miller's house, which is now used as a theatre. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled dressings and features irregular window arrangements. The miller's house is positioned at a right angle to the west.
The mill has a stepped design with a wide basket-arched pend that passes through the center. There is a forestair leading to the door on the northeast elevation. A later raised walkway connects the southeast gable of the miller's house to the mill, approached by a rubble forestair, both equipped with simple metal handrails. The mill predominantly features 9-pane timber glazing.
The miller's house is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a prominent crow-stepped gable on the northwest side. It has a string course, a blind center Gothic window, and a bull's eye window above the fronting end stack. The southwest elevation has two dormer windows that break the wallhead, and the house features 12-pane timber glazing. Both buildings have roofs made of Caithness slate.
Local climate
Old Mill Theatre, Millbank, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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