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8 Barrock Street, Thurso

A Category B Listed Building in Thurso, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.5935 / 58°35'36"N

Longitude: -3.5243 / 3°31'27"W

OS Eastings: 311495

OS Northings: 968281

OS Grid: ND114682

Mapcode National: GBR K6N0.Q8V

Mapcode Global: WH5BJ.T8YJ

Plus Code: 9CCRHFVG+97

Entry Name: 8 Barrock Street, Thurso

Listing Name: 6, 8 Barrock Street Piers and Garden Walls

Listing Date: 21 February 1975

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388370

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41962

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Thurso, 8 Barrock Street

ID on this website: 200388370

Location: Thurso

County: Highland

Town: Thurso

Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness

Traditional County: Caithness

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Description

Dated 1832. Tall, 2-storey and attic, 3 bay house with
further 2-storey range extending from NE gable. Main
block coursed rubble with tooled and polished contrasting
ashlar dressings. NE range, rubble with tooled rubble
dressings. Main front to SE, with rear elevation to
Barrock Street.
Main house has slightly advanced centre bay with chamfered
angles, corniced wallhead and centre blocking course.
Centre panelled door with decorative fanlight masked
by portico with moulded cornice and supported by pair Roman
Doric columns. Single ground and 1st floor windows to
Patersons Lane; Symmetrical rear elevation with blocked
centre door (as window). 12-pane glazing; panelled and
corniced end stacks; square skewputts, to right dated
with palmette motif and to left with entwined rose,
thistle and shamrock; Caithness slate roof.
NE range (6 Barrock Street) has 2 windows raised through
wallhead, 1 enlarged and some blind; 8 bays to rear
with 2 blocked doors; ridge and end stacks; West Highland
slate roof.
Interior; main house has decorative plaster ceiling in
entrance hall; decorative plaster cornices and centre
roundels in drawing and dining rooms; cantilevered
semi-circular stair with decorative cast-iron balusters.
Re-used late 17th century carved stone chimney piece in
dining room with centre shield flanked by lions passant and
by rose and thistle; crude egg and dart border; half
round moulding.
Gate piers and garden walls; pedestrian entrance from
Patersons Lane; pair tooled ashlar gate piers with ogee
caps with ball finials; coped rubble garden walls.

Statement of Interest

Corner site with Patersons Lane. 6 Barrock Street for group

value only.

Corner site with Paterson's Lane. Re-used chimney piece

shield bears initials M

G M

in 2nd quarter and large I and S in 3rd and 4th respectively.

Date of removal to 8, Barrock Street not known, but chimney

piece recorded in Old House in Davidson' Entry in 1910.

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