Thurso Technical College Annexe, Castle Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. School. 2 related planning applications.
Thurso Technical College Annexe, Castle Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- blind-plaster-dew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- Thurso Technical College Annexe, Castle Street, Thurso, KW14 7JD
- OS grid reference
- ND 114 685
- Coordinates
- 58.59563, -3.52575
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thurso Technical College Annexe, built around 1870, is a single-storey school with 11 bays. The building is constructed of tooled rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. It features a slightly advanced gabled centre bay and advanced gabled outer bays. The entrances are located in the re-entrant angles, with the left side featuring a square projecting tower topped with a pyramidal bellcast roof made of fishscale slate. On the right side, there is a similar square porch that rises as an octagonal first stage, which has small hoodmoulded windows on alternating facets and a steep octagonal bellcast roof. The advanced outer bays contain large hoodmoulded tripartite windows, and the windows mainly consist of 10-pane glazing. The building has corniced ridge stacks and slate roofs. There is a low coped retaining wall with cast iron railing along Castle Street, and a simple coped rubble wall along East Church Street.
Local climate
Thurso Technical College Annexe, Castle 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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