Walled Garden, Altamount House Hotel, Coupar Angus Road, Blairgowrie is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 September 2003. Walled garden.

Walled Garden, Altamount House Hotel, Coupar Angus Road, Blairgowrie

WRENN ID
vacant-nave-yarrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 September 2003
Type
Walled garden
OS grid reference
NO 179 446
Coordinates
56.58625, -3.33723
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Altamount House Hotel, located on Coupar Angus Road in Blairgowrie, was likely built around 1866. It features a rectangular plan enclosed by semicircular and flat-coped rubble walls. Within the garden, there is a gazebo to the southeast, a conservatory to the northeast, and a modern timber stable.

The gazebo has a polygonal roof and is attached to the wall. It includes a central door made of rustic poles on the northwest side, flanked by windows, and another door on the southeast side. Inside, there are bench seats made from rustic poles and boarded timber walls.

The greenhouse is a lean-to conservatory with a finial, vertical glazing, and a tiled floor.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Altamount House Hotel, Coupar Angus Road, Blairgowrie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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