10 Princes Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Shops and dwelling.
10 Princes Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- distant-storey-autumn
- 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
- Shops and dwelling
- Address
- 10 Princes Street, Thurso, KW14 7BQ
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 684
- Coordinates
- 58.59461, -3.5214
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
10 Princes Street in Thurso is a mid-19th century building that features two stories and an attic, designed as a pair of shops with a dwelling above. The structure is constructed from rubble, accented with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. Its symmetrical frontage includes paired central doors and two modern small box dormers. The windows have 2-pane glazing, and there are end stacks on the roof, which is covered with slate.
Local climate
10 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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