Congregational Church, Castle Street, Thurso

Circa 1875. Rectangular church with gabled entrance front to

Castle Street (SE). All coursed, tooled rubble with tooled

ashlar dressings. Centre hood-moulded pointed-headed

entrance with moulded jambs and double leaf plank door with

decorative cast-iron hinges flanked by long pointed-headed

windows linked by continuous hoodmould. Large centre

hoodmoulded rose window with geometric tracery; diminutive

apex vent. 4-bay flanks with simple, long pointed-headed

windows; lattice pane glazing. Pronounced skewputts;

castiron apex finials, slate roof.

Single storey gabled hall wing to east of same date as

church. Pointed tripartite lights SE gable and bipartite the

NE (East Church Street) gable. Similar detailing as church;

corniced wallhead stack.

Low coped rubble walls front Castle Street with pair centre

ashlar octagonal gate piers with shallow octagonal caps,

linked to similar terminal piers by cast-iron railings,

matching pair pedestrian gates. Plain coped rubble wall

fronts East and West Church Streets.