Sir Walter Statue, King's Place, Perth is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Statue.

Sir Walter Statue, King's Place, Perth

WRENN ID
lapsed-soffit-thyme
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
Statue
Address
Sir Walter Statue, King's Place, Perth, PH2 8AA
OS grid reference
NO 115 231
Coordinates
56.39198, -3.43443
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Sir Walter Statue, located at King's Place in Perth, was created by the Cochrane Brothers in 1845. It features a corniced square-plan stone plinth that is raised on two additional plinths. The statue itself depicts Sir Walter Scott standing and facing north, dressed in a toga. His right hand rests on a broken column, and a deerhound lies beside him. An inscription on the northern side reads "SIR WALTER SCOTT BT 1771-1832."

Local climate

Sir Walter Statue, King's Place, 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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