Summerhouse, Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, Perth is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 July 2000. Summerhouse, greenhouse.
Summerhouse, Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, Perth
- WRENN ID
- low-column-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 July 2000
- Type
- Summerhouse, greenhouse
- Address
- Summerhouse, Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, Perth, PH2 7DL
- OS grid reference
- NO 125 238
- Coordinates
- 56.39847, -3.41892
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The summerhouse at Bowerswell, located on Bowerswell Road in Perth, dates from the earlier to mid-19th century, while the adjoining greenhouse was added in the early 20th century. This single-storey structure features a summerhouse made of handmade red brick with brick dressings, and a greenhouse with a yellow brick base and timber glazing bars.
The summerhouse is positioned next to a rubble boundary wall and has its entrance on the southwest side. It features a central pointed-arched doorway with a two-leaf panelled timber door that has glazed upper panels and a fanlight above. There are narrow pointed-arched timber windows on either side of the doorway. The summerhouse has timber glazing and a cruciform plan slate roof with lead ridges.
Inside, the summerhouse has boarded timber walls below the dado, with the rest of the walls plastered. It includes decoratively panelled timber doors, a cast-iron fireplace with a timber surround, and a groin-vaulted ceiling with decoratively moulded ribs and a foliate rose at the apex.
The greenhouse, which is attached to the southeast of the summerhouse, has a brick base course and glazed walls featuring a round-arched glazing pattern with blue glass spandrels, topped by a pointed-arched roof. The interior of the greenhouse has terracotta tiles on the floor.
The boundary wall surrounding the property is a tall rubble structure with flat coping.
Local climate
Summerhouse, Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, 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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