Hmp Perth, Gatehouse is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Building. 1 related planning application.

Hmp Perth, Gatehouse

WRENN ID
fallen-forge-cream
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
Building
OS grid reference
NO 117 224
Coordinates
56.38565, -3.43072
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

HMP Perth Gatehouse is a two-storey, three-bay building with additional single flanking canted bays, constructed between 1839 and 1842, and featuring significant later alterations. The central bay is made of sandstone ashlar and includes a pend at the ground floor, three round-arched windows above, and a crenelated parapet that incorporates a clock face. The ground floor flanking bays are built from roughly squared and coursed whinstone, with render above. The building has a piended slate roof.

Local climate

Hmp Perth, Gatehouse 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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