38, 40, 42 Princes Street, Perth is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Warehouse. 3 related planning applications.
38, 40, 42 Princes Street, Perth
- WRENN ID
- gilded-threshold-primrose
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1977
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 38, 40, 42 Princes Street, Perth, PH2 8LJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 119 232
- Coordinates
- 56.39344, -3.42799
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, located at 38, 40, and 42 Princes Street in Perth, dates from around 1890 and is a substantial three-storey, nine-bay Classical warehouse block that was formerly used as carriage works. It features a pediment and round-arched openings that create an arcade loggia with shops on the ground floor, making it a prominent structure on Princes Street. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with moulded dressings, including a base course, a moulded string course between the ground and first floors, and a bracketed eaves cornice.
The central bay is pilastered and pedimented, with a wide elliptical arch at ground level. The first and second floors have tripartite windows, with the first-floor windows being taller, while the flanking bays feature a bipartite window arrangement. The roof is piended.
The upper floors predominantly have non-traditional timber framed glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are broad, ashlar dressed end stacks with moulded coping, clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
38, 40, 42 Princes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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