Description

Circa 1815. 2-storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled terrace house. S facing. Coursed Caithness stone slabs. Regular fenestration, door to centre right.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slates, lead flashing, rooflights. Coped gable end stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

The A Group for Lower Pulteneytown comprises; 19-27 Bank Row (Wick Heritage Centre), The Black Stairs, The Round House, Harbour Place, Steven and Co storehouse, Harbour Quay, Old Fish Market, South Quay, storehouse, Telford Street, 2 Williamson Street.

The Group listing is in recognition of the exceptional group value of these buildings as the core of Thomas Telford's 1809 scheme for the new town plan of Pulteneytown for the British Fisheries Society. For further information see separate listing for the Round House, Harbour Place.

It is out of place for a dwelling house to have been built in this core area of the industrial area of Pulteneytown. The consistency of build with the neighbouring storehouse, and no signs of conversion or alteration, therefore suggests that it originally served as administrative offices. The building materials, stone and slate, and the overall dimensions, height and length, of the storehouses that form the Lower Pulteneytown grid were drawn up by Telford as part of his overall town plan and were laid down in the BFS's Building Regulations. The buildings are more complete fish processing factories that simply storehouses. The original layout, repeated throughout, was of a large gabled storehouse and offices building facing the main street and running the entire length of the feu, i.e. a whole or half block. The central archway led through a pend to a large open-air flagstoned curing yard behind. The curing yard was surrounded on the remaining three sides by ancillary stores and workshops such as the salt stores, cooperage and smokeries. For further information see separate listing for The Round House, Harbour Place.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56647639

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)