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Latitude: 58.5957 / 58°35'44"N
Longitude: -3.5181 / 3°31'5"W
OS Eastings: 311861
OS Northings: 968519
OS Grid: ND118685
Mapcode National: GBR K6P0.F4J
Mapcode Global: WH5BJ.X6WT
Plus Code: 9CCRHFWJ+7Q
Entry Name: Town Hall, High Street, Thurso
Listing Name: High Street, Town Hall
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388400
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41988
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200388400
Location: Thurso
County: Highland
Town: Thurso
Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government
J Russell Mackenzie, Architect, Aberdeen, 1870. Gothic.
2-storey and mansarded attic town hall; tooled and polished
ornate ashlar. NW facing frontage to High Street. Centre
recessed pointed headed entrance in shallow gabled porch;
double leaf plank door with decorative cast-iron hinges
and Y-tracery fanlight above. Bipartites with shoulder lintels
in ground floor; 4-light mullion and transom windows in
1st floor; bullfaced detailing to gable dormers with
quatrefoil lights in outer gablets; slightly taller centre
gable with pointed-headed window with nook shafts and
stained glass depicting St Peter. Buttresses define bays
terminating in pinnacles between attic gablets (those
flanking centre gablet truncated); stiff lead finials to
all pinnacles, those at outer bays panelled and gabletted.
Carved stone coats of arms between ground and 1st floor
windows in 2nd and 4th bays; bracketed cornice at wallhead;
corniced end stacks; continuous outshot to rear; slate roof
to north, corrugated asbestos to rear. Interior;
decorative cast-iron balustrade to staircase; little else of
interest.
Bequest of $1,000 donated by Alexander Henderson of
Thurso (14.1. 1871) towards building costs.
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