Northern District School, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977. School.

Northern District School, Perth

WRENN ID
knotted-cobble-furze
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 August 1977
Type
School
OS grid reference
NO 111 244
Coordinates
56.4039, -3.44183
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Northern District School in Perth, designed by G P K Young in 1908, is an example of Edwardian Renaissance architecture. This two-storey building features symmetrical red sandstone fronts on the northwest and southeast sides, with six-window flanks. The double-stepped northwest front includes a central entrance porch that has a tall arched window, which rises into a segmental pediment above. Flanking this are two long segment-headed windows, and there are four-window breaks leading to advanced one-window wings. The roof is slated and is adorned with two cupolas that have Ionic columns and weather vanes.

Local climate

Northern District School, 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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