4 Janet Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
4 Janet Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-lancet-vale
- 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
- Address
- 4 Janet Street, Thurso, KW14 7AR
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 681
- Coordinates
- 58.5923, -3.52175
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Janet Street in Thurso is an early 19th century, two-storey house with an attic, featuring a symmetrical three-bay design. The front is made of tooled ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, although much of it has been repaired with render. The flanks are harled, and there is a large modern two-storey addition at the rear.
The centre bay is barely recessed and has a corniced central door, which is flanked by channelled ashlar detailing. The first floor outer bays contain tripartite windows with blind side lights and cill bands. The outer bays are defined by long and short quoins, with a first-floor window in the southwest gable and a small central attic window in each gable. There are two late 19th century piended dormers with bipartite windows and a mix of two- and four-pane glazing. Some bracketed detailing on the eaves cornice remains, and the end stacks have been renewed. The front has a slate roof, while the rear features composite tiles.
The property is enclosed by high coped rubble garden walls that front both Janet Street and Brabster Street.
Local climate
4 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 — 3 applications
- 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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