8 Dempster Street, Wick is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Corner-terrace house.

8 Dempster Street, Wick

WRENN ID
strange-vault-bracken
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 September 1983
Type
Corner-terrace house
OS grid reference
ND 364 505
Coordinates
58.43858, -3.09067
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

8 Dempster Street in Wick is a two-storey, two-bay corner-terrace house built around 1840. It has a square plan and features a piended roof covered with grey slates and lead flashing. The exterior is constructed from coursed Caithness stone slabs and has a regular arrangement of windows.

On the southwest (principal) elevation, there is a door located to the right, which is topped by a letterbox fanlight. The northwest elevation, facing Malcolm Street, also has two bays and includes a blocked door on the right side.

The house has double-glazed windows, coped gable stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 2001.

Local climate

8 Dempster 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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