Waterworks, Tay Street, Perth is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Water works.
Waterworks, Tay Street, Perth
- WRENN ID
- turning-corner-coral
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1965
- Type
- Water works
- OS grid reference
- NO 120 231
- Coordinates
- 56.39227, -3.42645
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a former waterworks engine house and tank located on Tay Street in Perth, designed by Adam Anderson in 1832. It is an outstanding two-storey Neo-Classical structure featuring a prominent domed rotunda.
The lower part of the rotunda is constructed of ashlar stone and includes Roman Doric pilasters and blind panelled recesses at each bay. The upper part, which was formerly a cistern tank and is painted white, is set back behind a balustrade and features cast-iron plates with blind consoled windows, fluted Ionic pilasters, and an ornamented swagged frieze that incorporates the burgh arms. The rotunda is topped with a ribbed dome and a low cupola with a decorated drum. An inscription above the door in the rotunda reads 'Aquam Igne Et Aqua Haurio'.
To the north, there is a former engine house, which is a single-storey, flat-roofed rectangular-plan wing. This wing features triglyphed Doric pilasters at the corner angles, a panelled parapet, and a tall chimney with Doric columns capped by a Roman urn, which is a fibreglass replica.
Local climate
Waterworks, Tay Street, Perth 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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