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. 3 related planning applications.
Head Post Office, Market Place, High Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- ghost-sandstone-gold
- 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
- Post office
- Address
- Head Post Office, Market Place, High Street, Wick, KW1 4AB
- OS grid reference
- ND 364 509
- Coordinates
- 58.44227, -3.09081
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Head Post Office, located in the Market Place on High Street in Wick, was designed by W T Oldrieve from the HM Office of Works in 1912 and showcases the Scottish Vernacular Revival style. The building is constructed from tall, bullfaced rubble with ashlar dressings and features three storeys with five asymmetrical bays. To the west, there is a single-storey wing that includes two arches.
The façade includes two architraved doors topped with small raised decorative pediments, while the three middle bays are slightly corbelled above the ground floor, culminating in a pronounced crow-stepped gable. The second-floor window heads display strap work detail, and there is one pedimented wallhead dormer. Similar decorative features are present on the river frontage. The roof is made of graded Caithness slabs and includes gable chimneys. The river front has a simplified treatment due to the steeply sloping site, which is enclosed by a high rubble wall. Additionally, there is a single-storey building over a basement with a crow-stepped design at the rear, facing Victoria Place.
Local climate
Head Post Office, Market Place, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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