Sluice House is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 2012.
Sluice House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-steeple-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 2012
- OS grid reference
- NT 170 993
- Coordinates
- 56.17929, -3.3378
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lead-In Pier, designed by Robert Hutchison in 1836, is a single-storey, symmetrical sluice house with five bays located over the River Leven. It features five segmental-arched sluices that contain the original machinery. The structure has two lead-in piers extending to the north, constructed from coursed, squared rubble, and includes raised cills.
The sluice house is made of coursed rubble with darker margins around the window openings and has a band course above the sluices. A prominent central tympany gable is located on the south side. The northern section has original timber casement windows with lying panes, while the southern section has non-traditional replacement windows. The roof is piended and covered with grey slates.
Inside, as observed in 2011, the northern section retains original working cast iron sluice machinery made by Alexander Russell of Kirkcaldy. The interior features timber flooring, some timber panelling in the rooms, and cast iron fireplaces, one of which is tiled and has a timber fire surround.
The lead-in piers consist of a pair of straight, rubble-built structures with round end piers, bordering the intake channel that leads north from the sluice house into Loch Leven.
Local climate
Sluice House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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