Woolworths, 82-86 High Street, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.

Woolworths, 82-86 High Street, Wick

WRENN ID
small-roof-raven
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 September 1983
Type
Commercial
Address
Woolworths, 82-86 High Street, Wick, KW1 4LY
OS grid reference
ND 363 510
Coordinates
58.44284, -3.09127
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Woolworths, located at 82-86 High Street in Wick, was designed by Marshall Mackenzie in 1886. This building features a classical front made of Aberdeen granite, rising three storeys and comprising five bays. The ground floor has a modern shop front that is flanked by fluted angle pilasters. The first and second floors are accented by channelled outer giant pilasters, with windows set in moulded panels. The second floor includes a cill course. Four giant Ionic pilasters support a central entablature and a pediment that encloses a clock. The building is topped with a main cornice and a blocking course, and it has end stacks.

Local climate

Woolworths, 82-86 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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