5-6 Argyle Square, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. 1 related planning application.
5-6 Argyle Square, Wick
- WRENN ID
- stranded-plaster-cream
- 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
- 5-6 Argyle Square, Wick, KW1 5AL
- OS grid reference
- ND 366 503
- Coordinates
- 58.4372, -3.08724
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Argyle Square in Wick is a semi-detached pair of town houses designed by Thomas Telford around 1840. These two-storey homes have a symmetrical, rectangular plan and feature gabled roofs, facing northeast onto Argyle Square. The exterior is made of squared and tooled, long coursed Caithness stone slabs, with a regular arrangement of windows on the front and an irregular layout at the rear, including blind gable ends.
For the principal elevation of Nos 4 and 5, there are three bays, with a door located to the left, a pend in the center, and a blocked window above. The entrance has been knocked through to No 5, and there is a blocked door to the left of the pend.
No 6 has a principal elevation with a door on the right side.
The interior was not seen in 2001. The houses feature plate glass sash and case windows, grey slate roofs, coped gable stacks with a string course, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
5-6 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 — 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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