18 Bank Row, Wick is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1998. House. 1 related planning application.
18 Bank Row, Wick
- WRENN ID
- sacred-pier-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1998
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 365 506
- Coordinates
- 58.43969, -3.08828
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
18 Bank Row in Wick is an early 19th-century, two-storey, four-bay house with a rectangular plan and a gabled roof. The exterior features harled walls made of coursed Caithness stone slabs, with projecting stone margins around the openings. The eastern side has a piended roof.
On the northern elevation, which is the principal facade, there is a large square-headed garage entrance in the center, flanked by doors, with a window located at the far right. The upper storey has regular window placement.
The southern elevation, which is the rear, displays irregular window placement and includes a single-storey advanced bay that was once a bakery, also featuring a piended roof.
The eastern side elevation has a blind gable end, while the western side elevation is attached to No. 19.
The interior was not seen in 2001. The house has 12-pane sash and case windows, grey slates on the front roof, stone slabs on the rear and outshot, and lead flashing. There is a raised skew and coped gable stack on the western side, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
18 Bank Row, 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
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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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