2 Princes Street, Thurso is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
2 Princes Street, Thurso
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gallery-kestrel
- 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
- Address
- 2 Princes Street, Thurso, KW14 7BQ
- OS grid reference
- ND 116 684
- Coordinates
- 58.59481, -3.52115
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Princes Street in Thurso is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house featuring symmetrical facades on both the southeast (front) and rear. The building is constructed of rubble with painted tooled margins. It has a corniced central door on the southeast side, while the rear has a blocked central door facing Princes Street. There is one window on the ground floor and one on the first floor facing Olrig Street, and the rear has one blind ground floor window and one first floor window. The house features 12-pane glazing, end and ridge stacks, and is topped with a West Highland slate roof. A short length of coped rubble wall separates the front courtyard from Olrig Street.
Local climate
2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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