23 Traill Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 1 related planning application.
23 Traill Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- knotted-stair-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 683
- Coordinates
- 58.59414, -3.52143
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
19-21 Traill Street in Thurso is a later 19th century, two-storey and attic building featuring an irregular six-bay row of shops and dwellings above. The structure is constructed of tooled ashlar, with the ground floor painted and a modern shop front added to No 23. No 21 retains its original door with flanking windows and a side entrance leading to the dwelling above. The first floor has irregular fenestration with four-pane glazing, and the building is topped with a slate roof, complete with ridge and end battery stacks.
Local climate
23 Traill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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