Storehouse And Curing Yard, Harbour Quay, Wick is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 2002. Storehouse. 7 related planning applications.
Storehouse And Curing Yard, Harbour Quay, Wick
- WRENN ID
- over-pewter-pearl
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2002
- Type
- Storehouse
- Address
- Storehouse And Curing Yard, Harbour Quay, Wick, KW1 5EP
- OS grid reference
- ND 366 507
- Coordinates
- 58.4405, -3.08707
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The storehouse and curing yard at Harbour Quay in Wick dates from around 1815. It consists of a semi-detached block of three-storey, five-bay, rectangular-plan storehouses with symmetrical gabled roofs, built from coursed Caithness stone slabs.
The east elevation facing Harbour Quay features regular fenestration, with a segmental-arch opening in the center that has been converted into a doorway. Above this, a doorway on the first floor has been changed into a window, and there are smaller windows on the third storey. The west elevation, which faces the curing yard, has irregular fenestration. The north side elevation is adjacent to another storehouse, while the south side elevation has a harled gable end.
Inside, the building has been converted into modern offices, with plate glass and timber-framed windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has lead flashing, while the south side features a coped gable end stack. There are also cast-iron rainwater goods.
The curing yard includes a two-storey wall that runs along the side roads, made from Caithness slab-stone coursers. The second storey has blocked regular square windows, and there is a lean-to roof over some dilapidated offices facing the yard.
Local climate
Storehouse And Curing Yard, Harbour Quay, 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 — 7 applications
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