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Latitude: 58.4381 / 58°26'17"N
Longitude: -3.0879 / 3°5'16"W
OS Eastings: 336583
OS Northings: 950493
OS Grid: ND365504
Mapcode National: GBR L6RF.662
Mapcode Global: WH6DN.J5TL
Plus Code: 9CCRCWQ6+7V
Entry Name: 51 Argyle Square, Wick
Listing Name: 51- 55(INCLUSIVE Nos) and 57-59 (Inclusive Nos) Argyle Square
Listing Date: 13 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388771
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42280
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Wick, 51 Argyle Square
ID on this website: 200388771
Location: Wick
County: Highland
Town: Wick
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Terrace house
Circa 1840. Canted terrace of 2-storey, 2-bay, 3-bay and 4-bay symmetrical, rectangular-plan, gabled houses. SW facing onto Argyle Square. Coursed Caithness stone slabs, some harled. Regular fenestration, irregular to rear.
NO 51: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, harled and lined as ashlar. Channelled quoins, base course, projecting window margins with incised decoration. Door to centre, console bracketed cornice above. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end.
NO 52: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, harled and lined as ashlar. Channelled quoins, base course, projecting window margins with incised decoration. Panelled door to centre, console bracketed cornice above. Canted dormers, small rooflight to centre, felt tiles.
NO 53: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, harled. Channelled quoins, base course, projecting window margins with incised decoration. Door to centre, console bracketed cornice above. Large rooflights.
NO 54: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 4 narrow bays, door to left, blocked pend to outer right, blocked windows to 2nd and 4th bay of upper storey. Canted dormer to right, small rooflight to left.
NO 55: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 4 narrow bays, door to centre right, pend to outer right, blocked windows to 2nd and 4th bay of upper storey.
NO 57: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 3-bay, door to centre. Canted dormer to left.
NO 58: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 2-bay, door to left, blocked pend to centre. Canted dormer to right.
NO 59: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: 5-bay, door to centre, blocked pend and widow above to flanking bays. Modern box dormers. SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end.
INTERIORS: not seen 2001.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Coped gable stacks, 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. UpgradedC(S) to B February 2002.
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