Royal Bank Of Scotland, 1 Bridge Street, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. Banking house. 10 related planning applications.
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 1 Bridge Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- young-dormer-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- Type
- Banking house
- Address
- Royal Bank Of Scotland, 1 Bridge Street, Wick, KW1 4AJ
- OS grid reference
- ND 362 509
- Coordinates
- 58.44174, -3.09334
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 1 Bridge Street in Wick, was built around 1830. This classical building is a three-storey, three-bay freestanding banking house, featuring an additional ground floor bay to the south over a basement, and it faces the river. The Bridge Street elevation is constructed of ashlar stone, while the other sides are made of rubble.
The Bridge Street front showcases rusticated quoins and outer pilasters, with an advanced ground floor centre bay that serves as the base for a pair of outer piers and Ionic columns. These columns frame a central window and support an entablature that stretches across the entire front. The front features an architraved window with cornices on the first floor, a dentilled cornice with a blocking course above the second floor, and corniced end stacks.
To the south, the building has a projecting three-bay river frontage topped with four urns on the parapet, along with a later added canted bay window on the first floor. The roof is covered with piended slate.
Local climate
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 1 Bridge 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 — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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