County Council Offices, 73, 75 & 77 High Street, Wick is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 2002. Office.
County Council Offices, 73, 75 & 77 High Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- lost-bastion-jay
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 August 2002
- Type
- Office
- Address
- County Council Offices, 73, 75 & 77 High Street, Wick, KW1 4AB
- OS grid reference
- ND 363 509
- Coordinates
- 58.44242, -3.09139
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The County Council Offices at 73, 75, and 77 High Street in Wick were built around 1820, with a mid-20th century addition. This three-storey, six-bay building features a curved front elevation and is now used as offices. The structure is made of contrasting coursed dark whinstone and light sandstone dressings, with a base course, cill courses on the first and second floors, and a cornice topped with a plain blocking course. The windows are regularly spaced.
The northern (principal) elevation is nearly symmetrical and includes two doors at the ground floor. The southern elevation is convex with a diagonal section to the southwest. A modern addition to the east extends southwards. The roof is curved, featuring two shallow pyramid roofs and two outer half-pyramid roofs with gable wallheads.
There have been alterations to the openings, and the ground floor has replacement plate glass glazing. The first and second floors of the principal elevation have plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are raised stone stacks at the center of the pyramid roofs and at the gableheads.
Local climate
County Council Offices, 73, 75 & 77 High Street, Wick receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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