Perth And District Social Work Department, 31 Barossa Place, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. House.

Perth And District Social Work Department, 31 Barossa Place, Perth

WRENN ID
solitary-chancel-ash
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1965
Type
House
OS grid reference
NO 114 240
Coordinates
56.40055, -3.43601
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Perth and District Social Work Department, located at 31 Barossa Place in Perth, is a building dating from around 1830 to 1840. It is a two-storey structure with an attic, featuring a three-window façade made of painted ashlar stone. The building has pilastered ends and an advanced central bay, which is accentuated by a Greek Doric columned porch topped with a balustraded parapet. There is a main cornice and a blocking course, along with a long modern dormer on the hipped, slated roof. Unfortunately, there is a recent single-storey extension to the east, as well as two-storey and single-storey extensions to the west.

Local climate

Perth And District Social Work Department, 31 Barossa Place, 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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