Description
Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, symmetrical, gabled house Pedimented portico in antis. Coursed Caithness stone slabs. Base course, dividing band between floors, 1st floor cill course.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripartite panelled door to centre, letterbox fanlight; architraved doorway; flanking Doric columns in antis supporting slightly projecting pediment. Flanking windows within slightly recessed bays. Raised, broached and droved ashlar margins to upper storey openings; centre window flanked by narrow blind windows.
SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end.
NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: abutting NO 18.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 2001.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
12-pane sash and case windows. Grey slates, raised skews, coped 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.