Comrie Bookshop, Melville Lane, Comrie is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 October 1977. Bookshop.

Comrie Bookshop, Melville Lane, Comrie

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 October 1977
Type
Bookshop
OS grid reference
NN 773 220
Coordinates
56.37475, -3.98794
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Comrie Bookshop is a single-storey building with an attic, dating from the later 18th century and altered in the 19th century. It features a gable front constructed from local rubble with droved dressings. The centre of the attic has an arched window with a keyblock, and the building is adorned with Victorian bargeboards. The roof is slated.

Local climate

Comrie Bookshop, Melville Lane, Comrie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 50 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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