Town Hall, High Street, Thurso

The Town Hall in Thurso, designed by architect J Russell Mackenzie from Aberdeen in 1870, is a Gothic-style building featuring two storeys and a mansarded attic. It is constructed from ornate, tooled, and polished ashlar stone. The northwest-facing facade overlooks High Street and includes a centrally recessed entrance with a pointed arch in a shallow gabled porch. The entrance has a double leaf plank door adorned with decorative cast-iron hinges and a Y-tracery fanlight above.

The ground floor has bipartite windows with shoulder lintels, while the first floor features four-light mullion and transom windows. The gable dormers exhibit bullfaced detailing and quatrefoil lights in the outer gablets, with a slightly taller central gable that includes a pointed-headed window with nook shafts and stained glass depicting St Peter. Buttresses mark the bays and culminate in pinnacles, with those flanking the central gablet truncated. Each pinnacle is topped with stiff lead finials, and the outer bay pinnacles are both panelled and gabletted.

Carved stone coats of arms are located between the ground and first floor windows in the second and fourth bays. A bracketed cornice runs along the wallhead, and there are corniced end stacks. The building features a continuous outshot at the rear, with a slate roof on the north side and corrugated asbestos on the rear. Inside, there is a decorative cast-iron balustrade on the staircase, but little else of interest is noted.