3 Janet Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
3 Janet Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- heavy-attic-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1975
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 681
- Coordinates
- 58.59249, -3.52133
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Janet Street in Thurso is an early 19th-century house that stands two storeys high and features a wide three-bay design. The front is made of tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, while the flanks and rear wing are constructed from rubble. The outer bays are slightly advanced and quoined, framing a centre bay that is rusticated and has a keystoned round-headed entrance. The ground floor windows are slightly recessed, and the outer first-floor windows have narrow blind side lights. The house has a bracketed eaves cornice, a first-floor window in the southwest gable, and diminutive centre attic windows in each gable. There are also two piended dormers, three-pane glazing, and corniced end stacks, all topped with a slate roof.
To the left of the house is a single-storey, four-bay rubble wing that has outer doors, one of which is blocked, and two windows. A parapet wall conceals the roof of this wing.
Additionally, there is a stables or gighouse, also from the early 19th century, which is a two-storey rubble range facing Brabster Street. It features a near-centre door flanked by two wide slabbed entrances, three loft windows, and a small blocked pigeon flighthole in the southwest gable. The southeast garden front has two doors and two windows, and the roof is partially covered with corrugated asbestos and partially with Caithness slate.
Local climate
3 Janet 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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