Hmp Perth, Visitor Centre is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. Guardhouse.

Hmp Perth, Visitor Centre

WRENN ID: lost-mortar-azure
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: Perth and Kinross
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 26 August 1977
Type: Guardhouse
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Built in 1810-12 as part of Robert Reid's prisoner of war scheme as 'guardhouses', this pair of single storey buildings each comprises 9 bays with slightly advanced end bays and regularly spaced round-arched full height niches with square-headed window openings. They flank the entrance to HMP Perth. They are built of squared and coursed whinstone with cream ashlar dressings and quoins and there are overhanging bracketed eaves and slate piended roofs.

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