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3 Dempster Street, Wick

A Category C Listed Building in Wick, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.4383 / 58°26'17"N

Longitude: -3.0904 / 3°5'25"W

OS Eastings: 336437

OS Northings: 950511

OS Grid: ND364505

Mapcode National: GBR L6QF.C1M

Mapcode Global: WH6DN.H5MH

Plus Code: 9CCRCWQ5+8V

Entry Name: 3 Dempster Street, Wick

Listing Name: 3 and 5 Dempster Street

Listing Date: 14 September 1983

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388821

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42307

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200388821

Location: Wick

County: Highland

Town: Wick

Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness

Traditional County: Caithness

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Description

Circa 1840. Semi-detached pair of 2-storey, 2-bay rectangular-plan, gabled houses. SW facing. Coursed Caithness stone slabs. Regular fenestration, irregular to rear. Central bay with blocked pend and window, flanking doors.

INTERIORS: not seen 2001.

Timber-framed double glazed windows. Concrete tiles to No 3, grey slates to No 5. Coped gable stack to E, cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

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.

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