Municipal Buildings, 2 High Street, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Corporate headquarters. 4 related planning applications.
Municipal Buildings, 2 High Street, Perth
- WRENN ID
- proud-merlon-pine
- 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
- Corporate headquarters
- Address
- Municipal Buildings, 2 High Street, Perth, PH1 5PH
- OS grid reference
- NO 120 236
- Coordinates
- 56.39667, -3.42607
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Municipal Buildings at 2 High Street in Perth were designed by George P K Young in 1899, showcasing a Renaissance style reminiscent of JJ Burnet. The building is three stories tall, with a modern set-back attic floor. It features seven windows facing High Street (originally four) and eight windows on Tay Street, with the end bays advanced and channelled. The corner bay is highlighted by an aediculed drum and a dome above.
On the ground floor, there are arched openings supported by three Roman Doric pilasters on the Tay Street frontage and two on the main entrance in the center bay on High Street. The entrance features blocked Doric columns and crouching figures at the entablature, topped with a broken segmental pediment. The first-floor windows are elaborately designed with key blocks and pediments, made from dwarf red sandstone. The second floor is in the Ionic order and includes a balustraded parapet. A modern west addition, completed in 1957-58, extends the facade into Watergate.
Local climate
Municipal Buildings, 2 High 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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