The Old Post Office, Ruthven is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Post office. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Post Office, Ruthven
- WRENN ID
- heavy-glass-alder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Old Post Office, Ruthven, PH12 8RG
- OS grid reference
- NO 288 488
- Coordinates
- 56.62638, -3.16047
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Post Office in Ruthven is an early 19th century building that has undergone significant alterations. It is a single-storey structure made of whitewashed rubble with margins. Some of the windows have been enlarged and feature 20-pane sash designs. There is a lower outbuilding with a piended roof that includes a modern porch. The building has a slated roof, and one of the chimneys has been rebuilt in brick.
Local climate
The Old Post Office, Ruthven sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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