Hobart House, 21 The Square, Aberfeldy is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 2002. Tenement.

Hobart House, 21 The Square, Aberfeldy

WRENN ID
open-casement-rain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 August 2002
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NN 856 490
Coordinates
56.61945, -3.86431
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hobart House is a late 19th-century, two-storey and attic small tenement with a shop on the ground floor, located at 21 The Square in Aberfeldy. The building is constructed from squared and snecked chlorite-slate rubble, featuring slab lintels and painted ashlar. It has a base course, a cornice at the ground floor, and part of the first-floor cill course. The openings are architraved, lugged, and segmental-headed, with corbels and stone and timber mullions.

On the west elevation, there is a slightly advanced ashlar bay on the outer right, which includes a corniced and keystoned doorpiece with a panelled timber door and a plate glass fanlight at the ground level. Above, a cill course leads to a single window with a glazed oculus set in a shaped corniced gable. To the left, there are three bays featuring a central shop door at ground level, flanked by stone pilasters and a broad modern door, with two-part display windows in the adjacent bays. The first floor has three windows, and there are two stone dormers above with a rooflight in the centre.

On the south elevation, facing Old Crieff Road, there are two segmental-headed windows at ground level flanking a corbelled canted four-light oriel window on the first floor, with a three-part dormer window above. The upper windows have a six-pane glazing pattern, while the lower sashes have a two-pane pattern, and the oriel and dormer windows feature a multi-pane glazing pattern. All windows are timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans. The eaves overhang with plain bargeboarding.

Local climate

Hobart House, 21 The Square, Aberfeldy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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