Perth Bridge is a Grade A listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Bridge. 2 related planning applications.
Perth Bridge
- WRENN ID
- dark-spindle-umber
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1965
- Type
- Bridge
- OS grid reference
- NO 121 238
- Coordinates
- 56.39899, -3.42541
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Perth Bridge is a road bridge built between 1766 and 1771 by John Smeaton, with widening work completed by A D Stewart in 1869. The bridge features seven round arches spanning the River Tay, with two smaller round arches at each end. It is constructed from pink Perth sandstone ashlar and includes circular black stone oculi in the spandrels. The bridge has low, triangular cutwaters.
Additional features include cantilevered pedestrian footpaths supported by cast-iron brackets and decorative parapets that incorporate slender lamp standards.
Local climate
Perth Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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