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Watten, Wick, Highland. KW1

Land size: 1 acres

Key Features

ONE ACRE SITE
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Description

The site, which has outline planning permission for one house (Highland 23/00307/PIP), extends to approximately one acre and has 100 metre private driveway. It is not part of a croft.
There are views in nearly every direction and the hills near the Caithness border, 25 miles to the south, can be seen on a clear day.
Mains water, electricity (single or 3-phase as required), telephone and surface water drainage are either on site or immediately adjacent to it.

The village of Watten, is 2.5 miles away, has a primary school, hotel and a shop/post office. Wick, 9 miles away, has an airport, train station, hospital, medical centres, shops, supermarkets and secondary school. Thurso is 14 miles aware and has similar facilities apart from the airport.

Development Cheap Land Vacant Land Undeveloped Land Freehold Bare Land Planning Permission Rural properties

Map Location

Property details

Tenure: Freehold
Council Tax Band: TBC
Date Posted: 2026-01-29

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 143 Development Land listings in Scotland (1+ acres).

This Property£50,000 / acre

Development Land Average (1+ acres) £29,183 / acre

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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity: Ask Agent
Water: Ask Agent
Heating: Ask Agent
Broadband: Ask Agent
Sewerage: Ask Agent

Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way: Ask Agent
Private Rights of Way: Ask Agent
Listed Property: Ask Agent
Restrictions: Ask Agent

Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility: Ask Agent
Parking: Parking Available
Garden: Ask Agent

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre · available to 9% of premises

Suitable for

4K streaming on every screen
Full-time home working
Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

OutdoorsIndoorsEE Good NoneO2 Good NoneThree Good NoneVodafone Limited None

Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

Watten Primary School2.1 miles
Pupils
37
Type
Non-denominational
Bower Primary School3.4 miles
Pupils
22
Type
Non-denominational
Keiss Primary School6 miles
Pupils
38
Type
Non-denominational
Castletown Primary School7.4 miles
Pupils
82
Type
Non-denominational
Noss primary school7.5 miles
Pupils
294
Type
Non-denominational

Secondary

Wick High School7.5 miles
Pupils
735
Type
Non-denominational
Thurso High School11 miles
Pupils
753
Type
Non-denominational
Stromness Academy33 miles
Pupils
338
Type
Non-denominational
Farr High School35 miles
Pupils
68
Type
Non-denominational
Kirkwall Grammar School35 miles
Pupils
861
Type
Non-denominational

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: planning activity, heritage and any flood history here are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Tesco Wick Superstore, Wick, Highland7.1 miles

Co-op Wick, Wick, Highland7.4 miles

Lidl Wick, Wick, Highland7.8 miles

GP surgery

The Pearson Practice7.7 miles

Pharmacy

Boots The Chemists Ltd7.6 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Georgemas Junction Rail Station6.6 miles

Nearest bus stop

Old Post Office1.8 miles

Typical drive times

Wick17 min · 9 miles

Thurso23 min · 15 miles

Kirkwall1 hr 53 min · 46 miles

Stromness2 hr 16 min · 61 miles

Inverness (city)2 hr 23 min · 107 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

SEPA open data, checked around the advertised map pin for the listed acreage. Provided by LandSale, not the listing agent, and not part of the agent's particulars. Risk varies across a holding, so verify before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Not on SEPA's flood maps

Surface water

Mapped risk

These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.

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Listing agent

Yvonne Fitzgerald Properties, Thurso

7 Swanson Street, Thurso, KW14 8AP

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