Thurso Public Library And Registrar, Davidson's Lane, Thurso

W Scott, Architect, Edinburgh, 1859. Rectangular,

classical single storey former school, with 7-bay NE frontage

approached by wide flight steps. Polished ashlar frontage

and dressings, coursed tooled rubble flanks and rear.

Centre door masked by pedimented Roman Doric tetrastyle

portico with centre plaque in tympanum. Angle pilasters;

aproned windows; slightly narrower flanking centre door;

margined multi-plane glazing; eaves cornice and blocking

course. Centre peristyle drum tower with louvred vents,

octagonal upper portion with blocked clock faces and

narrow alternating facets, all margined; moulded cornices;

domed lead roof with cast-iron finial. Paired corniced ridge

stacks; piended slate roof.

Late 19th century rear extension. Low coped retaining

wall to street frontage and flanking steps. Ashlar

covered with linostone 1984.