Fair Maid's House, 21, 23 North Port, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. House. 4 related planning applications.
Fair Maid's House, 21, 23 North Port, Perth
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-shingle-crimson
- 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
- Address
- Fair Maid's House, 21, 23 North Port, Perth, PH1 5LU
- OS grid reference
- NO 118 238
- Coordinates
- 56.39825, -3.43006
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fair Maid's House is a two-storey building located at 21 and 23 North Port in Perth. It incorporates fragments from the medieval period, although most of the masonry has been renewed. The interior was redone between 1893 and 1894 by architects J and G Young. The house is constructed from rubble and features a stair tower with a slated roof. On the outside wall, there is a niche that is reputed to have originally contained a curfew bell.
Local climate
Fair Maid's House, 21, 23 North Port, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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