Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1989. Telephone kiosk.

Telephone Kiosk, High Street, Thurso

WRENN ID

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Grade

B

Local Planning Authority

Highland

Constituency

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)

Country

Scotland

Date first listed

23 June 1989

Type

Telephone kiosk

OS grid reference

ND 118 685

Coordinates

58.59561, -3.51842

Source

Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Local climate

Telephone Kiosk, High 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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