Castlegreen Manse, Princes Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House, stable, gighouse. 1 related planning application.

Castlegreen Manse, Princes Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
empty-tallow-grain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Type
House, stable, gighouse
Address
Castlegreen Manse, Princes Street, Thurso, KW14 7BQ
OS grid reference
ND 112 680
Coordinates
58.59149, -3.52854
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Castlegreen Manse is an early 19th-century house located on Princes Street in Thurso. This tall, two-storey building with an attic features a three-bay design. The exterior is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, while the rear is harled. The symmetrical front has a central door that is concealed by a later 19th-century square projecting porch, which includes a side entrance and a crenellated wallhead. Above the porch, there is a central gable with a small attic window and an apex stack. Flanking the gable are later piended dormers, and the windows have 2-pane glazing. The house has panelled end stacks and a slate roof.

At the rear, there is a later 19th-century single-storey and attic, two-bay addition. Additionally, there is a stable and gighouse, which is a single-storey, irregular six-bay range also made of rubble, topped with a ridge Caithness slate roof.

Local climate

Castlegreen Manse, Princes 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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