The Elms, 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. House. 1 related planning application.
The Elms, Main Street, Longforgan
- WRENN ID
- gentle-nave-rowan
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Elms, Main Street, Longforgan, DD2 5ET
- OS grid reference
- NO 314 301
- Coordinates
- 56.4584, -3.11414
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Elms, located on Main Street in Longforgan, is an early 20th-century house attributed to architects Patrick Thoms and William Wilkie. This two-storey building features a rectangular plan and a three-bay design in the Arts and Crafts style. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and has a piended slate roof. The house includes 8-pane sash and case windows, with the first-floor windows breaking through the eaves and topped with half-piended roofs. Additional architectural details include a wallhead course, deep dentilled eaves, and tall corniced stacks that rise through the eaves.
On the south elevation, there is a conservatory at the ground floor and two dormer-headed windows on the first floor to the left. The east elevation also features dormer-headed windows on the first floor to the right. The north elevation has not been observed. The interior has not been seen. Surrounding the property is a saddleback-coped rubble boundary wall.
Local climate
The Elms, 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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