12 Barrock 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.

12 Barrock Street, Thurso

WRENN ID
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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
12 Barrock Street, Thurso, KW14 7DE
OS grid reference
ND 114 682
Coordinates
58.59321, -3.52466
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

12 Barrock Street in Thurso is a two-storey, two-bay house built in the earlier to mid-19th century. The structure is made of rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings, featuring long and short detailing around the windows and door on the symmetrical southeast front. The rear elevation facing Barrock Street has two ground floor windows and two first floor windows, one of which is blind. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and there are corniced end stacks. The roof is covered with West Highland slate. There is a small lean-to extension on the southwest gable, and the property is enclosed by high coped rubble garden walls.

Local climate

12 Barrock 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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