15-16 Argyle Square, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. 2 related planning applications.
15-16 Argyle Square, Wick
- WRENN ID
- seventh-courtyard-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- Address
- 15-16 Argyle Square, Wick, KW1 5AL
- OS grid reference
- ND 365 504
- Coordinates
- 58.43745, -3.08833
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
11 Argyle Square in Wick is a terrace of two-storey townhouses designed by Thomas Telford around 1840. The houses face northeast onto Argyle Square and feature a symmetrical, rectangular plan with predominantly two bays. The exterior is constructed from squared and tooled, long coursed Caithness stone slabs, with some sections harled.
Each house has a principal elevation with varying door placements and features. Number 11 has a door on the right and a small rooflight. Number 12 has a door on the left, a blocked doorway to the left, and a blocked pend to the right. Number 13 has a door to the right, a pend on the far left, and a blocked doorway in the center, along with a small rooflight. Number 14 features a door on the left, a blocked pend on the far left, a blocked window above, and a blocked doorway to the right, with a small rooflight. Number 15 is a three-bay house with a central door, a window above, and additional windows flanking the door, as well as two piended dormers and a rooflight in the center. Number 17 has a door on the right, a panelled door with a letterbox fanlight, a blocked doorway in the center, and a small modern gabled dormer to the left, along with a rooflight. Number 18 has a door on the left, an additional window in the center, and a single window in the upper storey, with a small modern gabled dormer to the right. The northwest elevation, facing Dunbar Street, shows a gable end with a blocked window on the ground left, a window above, and windows on the ground and upper storey to the outer right. There is also a full-height two-bay gabled addition to the rear.
The interior was not seen in 2001. The houses predominantly feature plate glass sash and case windows, grey slates, coped gable stacks with string courses, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
15-16 Argyle Square, 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 — 2 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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