Royal George Hotel, 51 George Street, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Royal George Hotel, 51 George Street, Perth
- WRENN ID
- old-paling-moss
- 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
- Hotel
- Address
- Royal George Hotel, 51 George Street, Perth, PH1 5LD
- OS grid reference
- NO 120 237
- Coordinates
- 56.39799, -3.4272
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal George Hotel, located at 51 George Street in Perth, is a mid-19th century building that has undergone later additions and alterations. It features a three-storey and attic Victorian Renaissance facade, which is painted and includes two canted bays with decorative iron parapets on the ground and first floors. The facade is adorned with lugged architraves and a central doorpiece with an arched fanlight. Above, there is a cantilevered first-floor balcony that is balustraded and topped with ball finials, and a pedimented window opening that leads onto the balcony. The second floor has three windows, complemented by a cornice and blocking course.
Additionally, there is a later 19th-century facade facing George Inn Lane, which is two storeys high and designed in a Renaissance style. This section has a painted, pilastered ground floor featuring two arched windows and a central door with a keystone. The first floor has three windows with blocked architraves and raised quoins.
The building also has a plain three-storey and basement L-plan frontage to Tay Street, which includes modern additions.
Local climate
Royal George Hotel, 51 George Street, Perth 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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