8 Wilson Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House.
8 Wilson Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- scarred-tallow-honey
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1975
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 119 684
- Coordinates
- 58.5952, -3.51725
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Wilson Street in Thurso is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house. It features heavily pointed rubble with rendered margins. The central entrance has a panelled door and four-pane glazing, with differing stacks at each end. The roof is covered with asbestos slate. There is a rubble screen wall to the southeast and a Caithness slab retaining wall in the front garden.
Local climate
8 Wilson 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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