Description
Circa 1820. Pair of 2-storey with attic, 2-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled houses. Coursed Caithness stone slabs, regular fenestration, irregular to rear. Canted dormers.
NO 28: N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: panelled door to right.
NO 29: N ( PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-leaf panelled door to left. W (LOWER DUNBAR STREET) ELEVATION: 3-storey, 2-bay regular fenestration, blocked windows to ground. S (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced 3-storey, gabled bay, coped stack.
INTERIORS: not seen 2001.
Plate glass sash and case windows except large plate glass window to ground floor right. Grey slates. Coped skews, gable stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Statement of Special 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.