Ywca, William Street, Blairgowrie is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 2003. YWCA building.
Ywca, William Street, Blairgowrie
- WRENN ID
- quartered-sill-claret
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 September 2003
- Type
- YWCA building
- OS grid reference
- NO 177 450
- Coordinates
- 56.59021, -3.34015
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The YWCA building on William Street in Blairgowrie is a two-storey, three-bay structure built in the 1930s, showcasing Art Deco style. It features a combination of harl and brick, with a brick base course and eaves course.
The principal elevation is symmetrical, with a slightly advanced central bay. This bay has a broad, deep-set timber door at the ground level, leading up to a cantilevered balcony that has an ironwork railing. Above, there is an original French window that breaks the eaves into a blocking course, which displays 'YWCA' in ironwork lettering. The flanking bays each contain a horizontal tripartite window on both floors.
On the southeast elevation, there is a gabled bay to the left, which has two small windows at ground level and a single window above. To the right, a lower block features three windows.
The building retains its original horizontal 9-pane glazing pattern in the Crittal windows and a 6-pane glazing pattern in the French window on the southwest side, while other windows have been replaced with small-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a brick stack with cans. The eaves are deeply overhanging with plain bargeboarding.
Inside, there is a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase and a hall that retains Art Deco door handles on the two-leaf panelled timber doors. The roof features a steel tie-beam and a stage.
Local climate
Ywca, William Street, Blairgowrie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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