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Latitude: 58.4385 / 58°26'18"N
Longitude: -3.0893 / 3°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 336501
OS Northings: 950533
OS Grid: ND365505
Mapcode National: GBR L6QF.CJW
Mapcode Global: WH6DN.J54B
Plus Code: 9CCRCWQ6+97
Entry Name: 40 Argyle Square, Wick
Listing Name: 35-41 (Inclusive Nos) and 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 and 49 Argyle Square
Listing Date: 13 April 1971
Last Amended: 5 February 2002
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388759
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42274
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Wick, 40 Argyle Square
ID on this website: 200388759
Location: Wick
County: Highland
Town: Wick
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Terrace house
Thomas Telford, circa 1840. Terrace of 2-storey, predominantly 2-bay, rectangular-plan gabled town houses. S facing onto Argyle Square. Squared and tooled, long coursed Caithness stone slabs. Regular fenestration. Side elevations obscured by abutting buildings, irregular fenestration to rear.
NO 35: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to left, large modern canted dormer to right.
NO 36: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to right, small gabled dormer to left. Concrete roof tiles.
NO 37: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to left, small gabled dormer to right. Concrete tiles.
NO 38: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, door to right, window to outer right, pend to far left. Concrete tiles.
NO 39: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: concrete tiles.
NO 40: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to right, base course, ashlar margins to openings. Rooflights, concrete tiles.
NO 41: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, door to centre, blocked pend to left, window to right; projecting margin to outer left window, pend to outer right. Roof lights, concrete tiles.
NO 43: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, door to centre, blind openings to right bay.
NO 44: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to left.
NO 45: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to right. Concrete tiles.
NO 46: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: door to left, blocked openings to outer left. Small modern, flat-roofed dormer to right. Blind gable end to E side.
NO 48: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical, harled. Base course, corner quoins. Door to centre, flanking pilasters and cornice hood over, projecting margins to openings, pedimented at ground. Blind gable end to W
NO 49: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical, harled. Projecting margins to openings. Door to centre, small square window above, large modern picture window to right. E (LOWER DUNBAR STREET) ELEVATION: modern shop entrance to ground.
INTERIORS: not seen 2001.
Modern plate glass sash and case. Grey slates, lead flashing, rooflights. Skews, coped gable stacks with string course. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
The A-Group for Upper Pulteneytown comprises: 1,2; 4,5,6; 11,12,13,14,15,17,18; 20,22; 30,31,33; 35-41,43,44,45,46,48,49; 51-55,57-59; 62,63 Argyle Square; 65 Argyle Square and 1 Grant Street; Pulteneytown Parish Church, Argyle Square; 1; 4,6; 8,9; 10,11,12,13; 14,15,16,17,18 Breadalbane Crescent; 1,2,3; 5,6; 12,13; 15; 17,18,19; 22,23,24,25; 26,27; 28,29; 31; 32; 37,38; 41; 42; 46; 47; 48,49 Breadalbane Terrace; 3,5; 8,10 Dempster Street; Wick Central Church of Scotland, Dempster Street; 7,9; 11 Malcolm Street; 1,2; 3,4,5,6; 7,8,9,10; 13; 15,16; 17; 18; 20 Sinclair Terrace.
The Group listing is in recognition of the exceptional group value of these buildings as the core of Thomas Telford's 1809 scheme for the new town plan of Pulteneytown for the British Fisheries Society. For further information see separate listing for 1,2 Argyle Square. Upgraded C(S) to B February 2002.
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