Royal British House, Leonard Street, Perth is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Former hotel, flats. 1 related planning application.

Royal British House, Leonard Street, Perth

WRENN ID
old-minaret-furze
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 August 1977
Type
Former hotel, flats
Address
Royal British House, Leonard Street, Perth, PH2 8HA
OS grid reference
NO 113 231
Coordinates
56.39252, -3.43754
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Royal British House, located on Leonard Street in Perth, is a former hotel dating from the mid-19th century. It is a three-storey building with an attic and features seven bays in a near symmetrical Classical style. The ground floor is constructed of ashlar, while the upper levels are made of squared and coursed rubble with contrasting raised, smooth margins and raised ashlar quoins. The ground floor has painted channelling, along with a base course, band course, and eaves band. The building includes pedimented dormers with sidelights and is rendered on the north, south, and east elevations.

To the right, there is a later four-bay single-storey and attic extension. The windows are predominantly replacement four-pane timber sash and case, with tilt and turn windows in the attic. The roof is covered with grey slates and features raised skews with small square plan columnar skewputts, as well as gablehead and ridge stacks. The building has been converted into flats as of 2009.

Local climate

Royal British House, Leonard 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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