Description
Circa 1820. Terrace of 2-storey, 2-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled houses. Harled coursed Caithness stone slabs, lined as ashlar. Long and short quoins. Regular fenestration, stugged margins to openings.
NO 17: N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door to right, bipartite window shared with 18 to upper storey, far right. Box dormer to left of roof.
NO 18: N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: mirror to 17.
NO 19: N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5-bay incorporating former 19. Door to 2nd bay, outer right bay widened into garage entrance. Central window to upper storey blocked
INTERIORS: not seen 2001.
Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slates, 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.