Head Post Office, Market Place, High Street, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Post office. 1 related planning application.
Head Post Office, Market Place, High Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- ghost-sandstone-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1983
- Type
- Post office
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
W T Oldrieve, HM Office of Works, 1912. Scottish Vernacular Revival. Tall, bullfaced rubble with ashlar dressings; 3 storey, 5 asymmetrical bays; single storey wing to west with 2 arches. 2 architraved doors with small raised decorative pediments; 3 middle bays slightly corbelled above ground floor in pronounced crow-stepped gable. Strap work detail to 2nd floor window heads, 1 pedimented wallhead dormer; similar details to river frontage. Graded Caithness slab roof; gable chimneys; simplified treatment to river front where steeply sloping site is enclosed by high rubble wall. Single storey over basement crow-stepped building to rear to Victoria Place.
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