Description
Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, tripartite, gabled house. Pedimented bay to centre. Harled, coursed Caithness stone slabs. Base course; raised, blocked margins to openings.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced central bay; panelled door to centre, letterbox fanlight; flanking narrow blind bays to door and window above; cavetto moulded pediment breaking eaves. Regular fenestration to flanking bays, except large plate glass window to ground floor right.
SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: abutting No 17
NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: abutting No 19.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 2001.
INTERIOR: not seen 2001.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Concrete tiles. Coped skews and 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.