Methven Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Castle. 3 related planning applications.
Methven Castle
- WRENN ID
- swift-keystone-quill
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Methven Castle, PH1 3SU
- OS grid reference
- NO 041 260
- Coordinates
- 56.41681, -3.55498
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Methven Castle is a Grade A listed building, attributed to John Mylne and dated 1664. It is a square, four-storey structure featuring circular ogee-roofed angle towers and is built from rubble. The north front has twin crow-stepped gables with a balustraded lead flat roof in between. The original front door has been replaced with an arched fanlight door piece, and the interior was remodeled in 1800, leaving only the central north scale and platt stair intact. An east two-storey wing was added, which includes a new main staircase made of pinned whinstone with cherry cocking. There is also a Tudor bay window on the east side and a north addition, likely constructed around 1815 by J. Gillespie Graham, while a south bay window was probably added around 1860. The west wing has been demolished.
Local climate
Methven Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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