Pentland Lodge, Granville Street, Thurso is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1975. House.

Pentland Lodge, Granville Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
steep-quoin-lake
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
OS grid reference
ND 113 686
Coordinates
58.59647, -3.52764
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Pentland Lodge, located on Granville Street in Thurso, was built in 1770 and underwent repairs in 1831. The building is harled with contrasting painted ashlar margins and dressings. It features a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay southeast frontage from 1770, with a central shallow corniced and pilastered door piece that includes a panelled door in a gabled bay topped with an apex stack. The ground floor windows on either side are corniced.

To the southwest, there is a low two-storey, narrow two-bay gabled wing, accompanied by a single-storey, single-bay piended wing and a modern sun porch. The large rear wing, which houses the dining and drawing rooms, is also two-storey and features a projecting gabled wallhead stack. The northwest piended gable has large tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, while the southwest elevation includes large single windows. The glazing consists of four- and twelve-pane configurations, and there are corniced end stacks on the roof, which is slate.

The property is further enhanced by garden walls, including a rubble-walled garden to the east and additional rubble walls enclosing the grounds, all topped with drystone copes.

Local climate

Pentland Lodge, Granville 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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