The White House, 5-7 Riverside Road, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1979. House.

The White House, 5-7 Riverside Road, Thurso

WRENN ID
buried-keystone-hawk
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Type
House
OS grid reference
ND 120 686
Coordinates
58.59648, -3.51477
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The White House, located at 5-7 Riverside Road in Thurso, is an earlier 18th century building that was restored around 1980. It features an irregular four-bay frontage on the southeast side, built into the slope of the land, with off-centre entrances at both the front and rear. The exterior is finished with dry dash render. A modern lean-to porch covers the front entrance, while the first floor has nearly symmetrical windows with multi-pane glazing throughout. The building has renewed end stacks and a roof made of Caithness slate. Additionally, there is a drystone wall along Wilson Lane.

Local climate

The White House, 5-7 Riverside Road, 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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