Rio, 14 Dundee Road, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Old people's home. 2 related planning applications.
Rio, 14 Dundee Road, Perth
- WRENN ID
- salt-pillar-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1977
- Type
- Old people's home
- Address
- Rio, 14 Dundee Road, Perth, PH2 7EY
- OS grid reference
- NO 123 234
- Coordinates
- 56.39535, -3.4213
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rio, located at 14 Dundee Road in Perth, is a building designed by David Smart around 1860. It features an Italianate style with an asymmetrical composition. The structure is two stories high with a basement and includes a three-story entrance tower that has paired arched windows with key blocks at the top stage. The north front showcases a broad-eaved pyramid roof topped with a weather vane.
The west front has a battered basement and a gable that features a single-storey canted bay on the left and a tripartite rectangular bay on the right. The roofs are low pitched, broad-eaved, and slated, with bracketted eaves. The building is constructed of rubble with quoined angles. Additionally, there is a two-storey flat-roofed modern extension at the rear. The property is enclosed by rubble-built garden walls that have ashlar gatepiers.
Local climate
Rio, 14 Dundee 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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