Coastguard Station, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Lookout tower. 1 related planning application.
Coastguard Station, Wick
- WRENN ID
- quartered-forge-plover
- 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
- Lookout tower
- OS grid reference
- ND 374 498
- Coordinates
- 58.43268, -3.07371
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Coastguard Station in Wick, dated 1812, features an octagonal tower made of white-washed rubble. The tower has two stages and is crenellated. Each face of the upper stage has 12-pane sash windows, except for the west side. The east side has been altered, with the original window replaced by a small later oriel window.
Local climate
Coastguard Station, 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
- 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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