Longforgan Primary School, Main Street, Longforgan is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1993. School. 5 related planning applications.

Longforgan Primary School, Main Street, Longforgan

WRENN ID
grey-loft-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 February 1993
Type
School
Address
Longforgan Primary School, Main Street, Longforgan, DD2 5EU
OS grid reference
NO 310 299
Coordinates
56.457, -3.12052
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Longforgan Primary School, built in 1908 by James Findlay, is a single-storey school with a mostly rectangular plan, likely incorporating parts of an earlier building at the rear. The exterior features bull-faced snecked rubble on the south, east, and west sides, with stugged snecked rubble at the rear and ashlar dressings. The roofs are piended slate, sweeping at the eaves. The building has a high base course and includes multi-pane and plate glass casement and top-hopper windows, bracketted eaves, and gables with coped skews and kneelers at the base. Decorative cast-iron rainwater goods and coped ridge stacks with rounded angles are also present.

On the southeast elevation, there is a prominent 5-light, flat-roofed transom and mullion window breaking through the eaves at the center, flanked by 12-pane windows on either side. The gables at the outer left and right are slightly advanced and feature tripartite, transom and mullion, keystoned segmental-headed windows. The east and west gables are blank.

The northeast elevation has later additions that mostly match the original building's character, with various doors and windows, including a door marked as the "boys entrance" on the left return.

The interior has not been seen. Surrounding the school is a boundary wall made of round-coped rubble on the north, south, east, and west sides. There are two round-section, bull-faced snecked rubble gatepiers topped with rounded ogival caps, along with thistle motif iron gates. Additionally, there are two playsheds supported by cast-iron columns and covered with slate roofs.

Local climate

Longforgan Primary School, Main Street, Longforgan receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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