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17 Sinclair Terrace, Wick

A Category B Listed Building in Wick, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.4398 / 58°26'23"N

Longitude: -3.0933 / 3°5'35"W

OS Eastings: 336271

OS Northings: 950681

OS Grid: ND362506

Mapcode National: GBR L6QF.3QV

Mapcode Global: WH6DN.G47B

Plus Code: 9CCRCWQ4+WM

Entry Name: 17 Sinclair Terrace, Wick

Listing Name: 17 Sinclair Terrace

Listing Date: 15 August 1979

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388854

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42331

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Wick, 17 Sinclair Terrace

ID on this website: 200388854

Location: Wick

County: Highland

Town: Wick

Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness

Traditional County: Caithness

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Description

Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, symmetrical, gabled house Pedimented portico in antis. Coursed Caithness stone slabs. Base course, dividing band between floors, 1st floor cill course.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripartite panelled door to centre, letterbox fanlight; architraved doorway; flanking Doric columns in antis supporting slightly projecting pediment. Flanking windows within slightly recessed bays. Raised, broached and droved ashlar margins to upper storey openings; centre window flanked by narrow blind windows.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: abutting NO 18.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 2001.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001.

12-pane sash and case windows. Grey slates, raised skews, coped gable stacks, 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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