Town Hall, High Street, Thurso

J Russell Mackenzie, Architect, Aberdeen, 1870. Gothic.

2-storey and mansarded attic town hall; tooled and polished

ornate ashlar. NW facing frontage to High Street. Centre

recessed pointed headed entrance in shallow gabled porch;

double leaf plank door with decorative cast-iron hinges

and Y-tracery fanlight above. Bipartites with shoulder lintels

in ground floor; 4-light mullion and transom windows in

1st floor; bullfaced detailing to gable dormers with

quatrefoil lights in outer gablets; slightly taller centre

gable with pointed-headed window with nook shafts and

stained glass depicting St Peter. Buttresses define bays

terminating in pinnacles between attic gablets (those

flanking centre gablet truncated); stiff lead finials to

all pinnacles, those at outer bays panelled and gabletted.

Carved stone coats of arms between ground and 1st floor

windows in 2nd and 4th bays; bracketed cornice at wallhead;

corniced end stacks; continuous outshot to rear; slate roof

to north, corrugated asbestos to rear. Interior;

decorative cast-iron balustrade to staircase; little else of

interest.