War Memorial, Sir John's Square, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1979. War memorial.

War Memorial, Sir John's Square, Thurso

WRENN ID
shifting-postern-jackdaw
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Type
War memorial
OS grid reference
ND 116 682
Coordinates
58.59352, -3.52208
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The War Memorial located in Sir John's Square, Thurso, was sculpted by Percy Portsmouth around 1920. It features a tall bronze figure of a female warrior who is protecting a child with her right hand while holding a sword aloft in her left hand. The figure stands on a plinth made of tooled ashlar, which is inscribed and has a stepped base.

Local climate

War Memorial, Sir John's Square, 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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