Former Curing Yard, 2 Williamson Street, Wick is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Storehouse.
Former Curing Yard, 2 Williamson Street, Wick
- WRENN ID
- lesser-cobalt-dust
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1983
- Type
- Storehouse
- OS grid reference
- ND 365 507
- Coordinates
- 58.44006, -3.08795
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Former Curing Yard at 2 Williamson Street in Wick dates from around 1815 and is a two-storey, 13-bay storehouse with a symmetrical rectangular plan and a piended roof. It is constructed from coursed Caithness stone slabs.
The west elevation features regular fenestration with doors located in the 5th and 10th bays, along with two blocked doorways on the ground floor and four blocked windows on the first floor. There is a large shop window in the outer right bay.
The east elevation has a single-storey lean-to addition with a sliding garage door on the right return. The arcaded wall of the curing yard remains visible.
On the north elevation facing Saltoun Street, there are two bays with a window centered on the ground floor. The south elevation facing Rose Street consists of four bays, featuring a door on the outer left and a large shop window to the right. There are two blocked windows in the center, a blocked segmental-arch pend to the right, and a blocked door on the outer right. The upper storey has regular fenestration with blocked windows in the outer bays.
The interior was not seen in 2001. The building includes plate glass sash and case windows, grey slates with lead flashing, coped gable end stacks to the south, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Former Curing Yard, 2 Williamson 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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