Nursery Cottage, Little Dunkeld is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Nursery Cottage, Little Dunkeld

WRENN ID
moated-granite-aspen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1981
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NO 026 422
Coordinates
56.56232, -3.58496
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Nursery Cottage in Little Dunkeld is a single-storey building with an attic, constructed from rubble and featuring a broad-eaved piend roof. The structure is rectangular and includes a bell-cote, segment-headed leaded windows with a central mullion, and a pedimented porch. It has simple centre dormers in the end walls, along with gothic windows, and dates from the early 19th century.

Inside, there is no gallery, but the building has an arched ceiling supported by iron tie-rods and central hangers. The original platform pulpit is accompanied by a couch and a velvet arched back, dating from 1854. A vestry was added in 1969.

Local climate

Nursery Cottage, Little Dunkeld sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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