Wick Heritage Centre, 19-27 Bank Row, Wick is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. Terraced houses. 3 related planning applications.
Wick Heritage Centre, 19-27 Bank Row, Wick
- WRENN ID
- under-wattle-foxglove
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1983
- Type
- Terraced houses
- Address
- Wick Heritage Centre, 19-27 Bank Row, Wick, KW1 5EY
- OS grid reference
- ND 365 506
- Coordinates
- 58.4397, -3.08893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Wick Heritage Centre, located at 19-27 Bank Row in Wick, is a row of three terraced houses built in the earlier 19th century. The leftmost house is a broad, symmetrical, rectangular-plan, two-storey building with three bays, featuring harled Caithness slab-stone coursers. To the right, there is a symmetrical pair of two-storey houses with attics, also in a rectangular plan, constructed from snecked and coursed Caithness stone slabs.
For Nos. 19 and 21, the north elevation facing Bank Row has a panelled door at the centre and a predominantly regular arrangement of windows, with lugged projecting margins around the openings. The left bay features a plate glass shop front, and there is an additional window to the right of the door. The south elevation has single-storey gabled wings on both sides, flanking a central flagstone courtyard, with irregular fenestration.
No. 23 has a similar north elevation with a panelled door at the centre and a letterbox fanlight. The fenestration is mostly regular, except for a segmental-arch pend to the left bay. There is a canted dormer on the left side. The south elevation features a three-storey, four-bay gabled curing house at the rear.
No. 27 also has a north elevation with a centrally located door and a letterbox fanlight, along with regular fenestration and canted dormers. The south elevation shows irregular fenestration and a flagstone curing yard.
Inside, the building has been converted into a partially open-plan Heritage Centre. It features 12-pane sash and case windows, grey slate roofing with lead flashing, coped gable end stacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Wick Heritage Centre, 19-27 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 — 3 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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