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47 Breadalbane Terrace, Wick

A Category C Listed Building in Wick, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.4391 / 58°26'20"N

Longitude: -3.0896 / 3°5'22"W

OS Eastings: 336486

OS Northings: 950603

OS Grid: ND364506

Mapcode National: GBR L6QF.CF9

Mapcode Global: WH6DN.J40V

Plus Code: 9CCRCWQ6+J5

Entry Name: 47 Breadalbane Terrace, Wick

Listing Name: 47 Breadalbane Terrace

Listing Date: 5 February 2002

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 395827

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48403

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200395827

Location: Wick

County: Highland

Town: Wick

Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness

Traditional County: Caithness

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Description

Circa 1880. 2-storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled Victorian house. High gabled dormerheads to 1st floor windows breaking eaves. Coursed Caithness stone slabs. Yellow sandstone ashlar 1st floor cill course, eaves course and long and short quoins; stugged ashlar margins to openings, chamfered cills.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled door to centre; letterbox fanlight, trefoil pediment above, square-stopped hoodmould. Bipartite window to left bay, stone mullion; single window to right; second door to outer right bay. Gabled windows breaking eaves to upper storey, ashlar roundels to gable heads. Corbelled cavetto moulded eaves course.

REAR ELEVATION: not seen 2001.

INTERIOR: not seen 2001.

Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slates, pantiled ridge, cast-iron rainwater goods, decorative hoppers.

Statement of Interest

The A-Group for Upper Pulteneytown comprises: 1,2; 4,5,6; 11,12,13,14,15,17,18; 20,22; 30,31,33; 35-41,43,44,45,46,48,49; 51-55,57-59; 62,63 Argyle Square; 65 Argyle Square and 1 Grant Street; Pulteneytown Parish Church, Argyle Square; 1; 4,6; 8,9; 10,11,12,13; 14,15,16,17,18 Breadalbane Crescent; 1,2,3; 5,6; 12,13; 15; 17,18,19; 22,23,24,25; 26,27; 28,29; 31; 32; 37,38; 41; 42; 46; 47; 48,49 Breadalbane Terrace; 3,5; 8,10 Dempster Street; Wick Central Church of Scotland, Dempster Street; 7,9; 11 Malcolm Street; 1,2; 3,4,5,6; 7,8,9,10; 13; 15,16; 17; 18; 20 Sinclair Terrace. 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 1,2 Argyle Square.

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