3 Dempster Street, Wick is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
3 Dempster Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- silent-brass-cedar
- 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
- House
- Address
- 3 Dempster Street, Wick, KW1 5QB
- OS grid reference
- ND 364 505
- Coordinates
- 58.43825, -3.09039
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
3 Dempster Street in Wick is a semi-detached pair of two-storey, two-bay houses built around 1840. They have a rectangular plan and gabled roofs, facing southwest. The exterior is made of coursed Caithness stone slabs, with regular window arrangements at the front and an irregular layout at the rear. The central bay features a blocked pend and window, with doors on either side.
The interiors were not seen in 2001. The houses have timber-framed double glazed windows. Number 3 has concrete tiles on the roof, while Number 5 is covered with grey slates. There is a coped gable stack on the east side and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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