The School House, Perth Road, Birnam is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 February 1976. School house.

The School House, Perth Road, Birnam

WRENN ID
carved-cobalt-lichen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 February 1976
Type
School house
OS grid reference
NO 032 417
Coordinates
56.55764, -3.57561
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The School House on Perth Road in Birnam is a building from the later 19th century. It is designed in an L-shape with a single storey and an attic. The front features a cantilevered and gabled timber porch at the corner, and the structure is made of local rubble with a slated roof that has bracketed eaves.

Local climate

The School House, Perth Road, Birnam sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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