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
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1977
- Type
- Guardhouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 117 224
- Coordinates
- 56.38601, -3.43169
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
HMP Perth Visitor Centre was built between 1810 and 1812 as part of Robert Reid's prisoner of war scheme, serving as 'guardhouses'. This pair of single-storey buildings each features nine bays, with slightly advanced end bays and regularly spaced round-arched full-height niches alongside square-headed window openings. They are positioned on either side of the entrance to HMP Perth. Constructed from squared and coursed whinstone, the buildings have cream ashlar dressings and quoins, overhanging bracketed eaves, and slate piended roofs.
Local climate
Hmp Perth, Visitor Centre 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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