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19 - 27 (Odd) Bank Row (Wick Heritage Centre)19 - 27 (Odd) Bank Row (Wick Heritage Centre) · Photo: Braveheart · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History of Wick · Historic Environment Scotland

84 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Wick’s locality, 122 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 19 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town.

2Category A43Category B3scheduled monuments16on Breadalbane Terrace
Listed buildings
84
122 per 10,000 residents
Category A
2
national importance
Category B
43
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
3
nationally important sites
In pictures

Wick in 19 photos and old views

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Wick Railway StationWick Railway StationCategory B listedBridge Street, Town HallBridge Street, Town HallCategory B listedMarket Place, High Street Post OfficeMarket Place, High Street Post OfficeCategory B listedHigh Street, Wick Old Parish ChurchHigh Street, Wick Old Parish ChurchCategory B listedMalcolm Street, Roman Catholic ConventMalcolm Street, Roman Catholic ConventCategory C listed+14See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Through time

Wick from 1903 to 1903

2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Castle Sinclair & Girnegoe Wick Caithness1903
EdwardianCastle Sinclair & Girnegoe Wick CaithnessPhoto: Unknown photographer · Public domain
The Harbour Wick Caithness1903
EdwardianThe Harbour Wick CaithnessPhoto: Unknown photographer · Public domain

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

The map

Where Wick’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

Cairn of Elsay, broch, Staxigoe, scheduled monumentThe Pap,broch 350m E of Hillhead, scheduled monumentWick Airfield bomb stores, 315m and 400m SSE and 470m SE of Upper Ackergill, scheduled monumentBridge Street, Bank of Scotland, Category BBridge Street, Clydesdale Bank, Category BBridge Street, Royal Bank of Scotland, Category BBridge Street, Town Hall, Category BCoastguard Station, Old Lookout Tower, Category BDempster Street, Wick Central Church (Church of Scotland), Category BFormer Bridge Street Church (Free Church), Bridge Street, Wick, Category BHarbour Place, The Round House, Category BHigh Street, Graveyard with Remains of Old St Fergus Church and Enclosing Walls, Category BHigh Street, Wick Old Parish Church, Category BHigh Street, Woolworths, Category BHillhead Farm East and West Kilns and Abutting Ranges of Farm Buildings, Category BMalcolm Street, St Joachim's Roman Catholic Church, Category BMarket Place, High Street Post Office, Category BMoray Street, St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church with Boundary Walls and Railings, Category BShore Lane, Mount Hooley and Gatepiers, Category BSinclair Terrace, Carnegie Public Library, Category BSinclair Terrace, Wick Martyrs' Free Church, Category BStaxigoe Grain Store, Category BWick Harbour, South Pier Lighthouse and North Pier Lighthouse, Category BWick Railway Station, Category BWick Sheriff Court, excluding flat-roofed extension to southeast, Bridge Street, Wick, Category B1 Breadalbane Crescent Including Rear Garden Wall, Category B1 and 2 Argyle Square, Category B10, 11, 12 13 Breadalbane Crescent Including Boundary Wall and Railings, Category B11, 12, 13, 14, 15,17,18 Argyle Square, Category B14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Breadalbane Crescent, Category B15 and 16 Sinclair Terrace, Category B17 Sinclair Terrace, Category B18 Sinclair Terrace, Category B20 and 22 Argyle Square, Category B25-31 (Odd Nos) Willowbank Road, Category B26 Broadhaven (W Mcdonald), Category B30, 31, 33 Argyle Square, Category B35-41 (Inclusive Nos) and 43, 44, 45, 46, 48 and 49 Argyle Square, Category B4 and 6 Breadalbane Crescent Including Boundary Wall, Railings and Stables, Category B4, 5 and 6 Argyle Square, Category B42 Union Street, (North of Scotland Newspapers), Category B48 and 49 Breadalbane Terrace, Category B51- 55(Inclusive Nos) and 57-59 (Inclusive Nos) Argyle Square, Category B62 and 63 Argyle Square, Category B65 Argyle Square and 1 Grant Street, Category B8 and 9 Breadalbane Crescent Including Boundary Wall, Railings and Stables, Category BHigh Street, Wick Old Parish Church Churchyard, Dunbar Memorial, Category A19 - 27 (Odd) Bank Row (Wick Heritage Centre), Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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84 listed buildings by grade
2 Category A43 Category B39 Category C

Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Category A

The 2 Category A listed buildings in Wick

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 43 Category B listed buildings in Wick

Buildings of regional importance. 17 are photographed.

Show the other 31
Historic streets

Breadalbane Terrace has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Breadalbane Terrace16 listed · 1 II*
Sinclair Terrace8 listed · 3 II*
Argyle Square7 listed · 7 II*

Of the 84 entries, 47 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Wick’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas60
Walls, gates & bridges9
Public & civic buildings7
Churches, chapels & priories6
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

60 entries (71%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 Category A buildings.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Category C

39 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 39 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Argyle Square, Pulteneytown Parish ChurchBank Row, The Black StairsHarbour Quay, Old Fish MarketHarbour Quay, Storehouse Including Curing Yard Wall to Rear (Steven and Co).High Street, D R Simpson, IronmongerHigh Street, Stafford Place, Wick Council OfficesMalcolm Street, Roman Catholic ConventNorth Head Memorial Tower, North Head Footpath, WickRutherford, Undertaker Off Argyle SquareTelford Street, (Storehouse)West Banks Avenue, Wick High School1 and 2 Sinclair Terrace1, 2 and 3 Breadalbane Terrace11 Malcolm Street12 and 13 Breadalbane Terrace13 Sinclair Terrace15 Breadalbane Terrace17, 18, 19 Breadalbane Terrace18 Bank Row2 Williamson Street20 Sinclair Terrace22, 23, 24, 25 Breadalbane Terrace26 and 27 Breadalbane Terrace28 and 29 Breadalbane Terrace3 and 5 Dempster Street3, 4, 5, 6 Sinclair Terrace31 Breadalbane Terrace32 Breadalbane Terrace37 and 38 Breadalbane Terrace41 Breadalbane Terrace42 Breadalbane Terrace46 Breadalbane Terrace47 Breadalbane Terrace5 and 6 Breadalbane Terrace6 and 7 Rose Street7 Church Street. Kirkhill7 and 9 Malcolm Street7, 8, 9, 10 Sinclair Terrace8 and 10 Dempster Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 2.5% of Wick

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Wick - Pulteneytown 197022 ha
22 hain conservation areas, of 899 ha inside the locality.

59 of the 84 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.

How the list grew

35 of Wick’s 84 listed buildings were added in 1983

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1983 · 352002 · 181971 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 12 entries were listed in 1971. 35 came in 1983, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.

Cairn of Elsay, broch, StaxigoePrehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
The Pap,broch 350m E of HillheadPrehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
WartimeWick Airfield bomb stores, 315m and 400m SSE and 470m SE of Upper Ackergill20th Century Military and Related: Magazines
Born here

15 notable people born in Wick before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

John Gow
David Sutherland
John Andrew
William John Macleay
John Harvey
Robert Doull
Alexander Henry Rhind
Angus Mackay
Donald Sutherland
Robert Caldwell Reid
Josiah Symon
John Barneson
Charles Aylen
David Macbeth Sutherland
William Durrand, Jr.
1650170017501800185019001950
Alexander Henry Rhind
Alexander Henry Rhind1833–1863 · British scholar; (1833-1863)
William John Macleay
William John Macleay1820–1891 · Politician and naturalist in New South Wales, Australia (1820-1891)
John Gow
John Gow1698–1725 · Scottish pirate
Josiah Symon
Josiah Symon1846–1934 · Barrister and politician in South Australia (1846–1934)
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland1835–1919 · New Zealand soldier, explorer, accommodation-house keeper.
David Sutherland
David Sutherland1803–1879 · Merchant, farmer and politician in South Australia (1803–1879)
RR
Robert Caldwell Reid1839–1897 · New Zealand politician (1839–1897)
JB
John Barneson1862–1941 · American businessman

Everyone born in Wick → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Towns its size

Wick has the 47th most Category A buildings of 238 towns its size

Scottish towns of 3,000–17,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
Wick2
#42 of 238for listed buildings per resident (122 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

46 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

In brief

Wick in brief

Wick has 84 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category, including 19 - 27 (Odd) Bank Row (Wick Heritage Centre). Only 46 of the 238 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. On Breadalbane Terrace alone there are 16 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 71% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 15 people born here before 1900, the best known include Alexander Henry Rhind (1833), William John Macleay (1820) and John Gow (1698). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 3 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Wick’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Wick?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 84 buildings inside Wick’s locality: 2 Category A, 43 Category B and 39 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Wick?

2, including High Street, Wick Old Parish Church Churchyard, Dunbar Memorial and 19 - 27 (Odd) Bank Row (Wick Heritage Centre).

Which street in Wick has the most listed buildings?

Breadalbane Terrace (16), Sinclair Terrace (8) and Argyle Square (7) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Wick?

Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Cairn of Elsay, broch, Staxigoe, The Pap,broch 350m E of Hillhead and Wick Airfield bomb stores, 315m and 400m SSE and 470m SE of Upper Ackergill.

How many conservation areas are there in Wick?

1, covering about 22 hectares of the town. The largest is Wick - Pulteneytown.

When were Wick’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 35, in 1983.

Are there old photos of Wick?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1903 to 1903, all on this page.

Who was born in Wick?

Among people born before 1900: Alexander Henry Rhind (1833), William John Macleay (1820), John Gow (1698), Josiah Symon (1846) and Donald Sutherland (1835).

Wick has no History Grade.

Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.

Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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