Description
Circa 1850. Semi-detached pair of 2-storey, 2-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled houses. Coursed Caithness stone slabs. Yellow sandstone ashlar margins and quoins to openings.
NO 48: NW ( PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door to right.
Modern double glazed windows, large box dormer to right. Grey slates, broad coped gable stack.
NO 49: NW ( PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripartite panelled door to left, letterbox fanlight with circular patterned glazing bars. Bowed cast-iron balconies to upper storey windows.
Modern timber sash and case windows. Concrete tiles, broad coped gable stack.
REAR ELEVATIONS: not seen 2001.
INTERIORS: not seen 2001.
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.