8 Barrock Street, Thurso

Dated 1832. Tall, 2-storey and attic, 3 bay house with

further 2-storey range extending from NE gable. Main

block coursed rubble with tooled and polished contrasting

ashlar dressings. NE range, rubble with tooled rubble

dressings. Main front to SE, with rear elevation to

Barrock Street.

Main house has slightly advanced centre bay with chamfered

angles, corniced wallhead and centre blocking course.

Centre panelled door with decorative fanlight masked

by portico with moulded cornice and supported by pair Roman

Doric columns. Single ground and 1st floor windows to

Patersons Lane; Symmetrical rear elevation with blocked

centre door (as window). 12-pane glazing; panelled and

corniced end stacks; square skewputts, to right dated

with palmette motif and to left with entwined rose,

thistle and shamrock; Caithness slate roof.

NE range (6 Barrock Street) has 2 windows raised through

wallhead, 1 enlarged and some blind; 8 bays to rear

with 2 blocked doors; ridge and end stacks; West Highland

slate roof.

Interior; main house has decorative plaster ceiling in

entrance hall; decorative plaster cornices and centre

roundels in drawing and dining rooms; cantilevered

semi-circular stair with decorative cast-iron balusters.

Re-used late 17th century carved stone chimney piece in

dining room with centre shield flanked by lions passant and

by rose and thistle; crude egg and dart border; half

round moulding.

Gate piers and garden walls; pedestrian entrance from

Patersons Lane; pair tooled ashlar gate piers with ogee

caps with ball finials; coped rubble garden walls.