Longforgan Primary School And Old Schoolhouse, Main Street, Longforgan is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1993. School, house. 2 related planning applications.
Longforgan Primary School And Old Schoolhouse, Main Street, Longforgan
- WRENN ID
- lesser-flue-ebony
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1993
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Longforgan Primary School And Old Schoolhouse, Main Street, Longforgan, DD2 5EU
- OS grid reference
- NO 310 300
- Coordinates
- 56.45717, -3.12035
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Longforgan Primary School and the Old Schoolhouse, built by John Bell between 1833 and 1834, is a single-storey and attic, L-plan building designed in the Tudor Gothic style. A later 19th-century addition transformed it into a T-plan structure. The exterior features stugged coursers and droved ashlar dressings, with some areas repaired using cement. The west elevation is harled, and there is a kitchen addition at the rear. The building has a slate roof and 12-pane sash and case windows on the front, with modern top-hopper and pivot windows at the rear that are not in keeping with the original character. The eaves are deep, and there is a corniced ridge stack that rises through the eaves at the east gable.
On the northeast elevation, there is a panelled door with a Tudor-arched fanlight and a moulded doorcase leading to a porch at the centre re-entrant. This elevation also features a corniced parapet and an octagonal angle buttress that terminates with an ogival-capped, corniced, and panelled finial. To the left, there is a single projecting window with a corniced, facetted roof in a recessed bay, and to the right, a projecting V window with a similar roof in an advanced bay. An attic window with a modern pivot frame is also present, along with a later single-storey addition that is slightly recessed to the far right.
The east gable has a blinded window on both the ground and attic floors. The southeast elevation includes three windows on the gable to the left, a door, and a window in a pentice-roofed addition at the right re-entrant, as well as a gabled dormer head above the original building. The west elevation is blank, with a later single-storey addition to the left.
The interior has not been seen. Surrounding the property is a rubble boundary wall on the north, east, and west sides.
Local climate
Longforgan Primary School And Old Schoolhouse, Main Street, Longforgan receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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
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- 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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