20 Marshall Place, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965.
20 Marshall Place, Perth
- WRENN ID
- rough-stone-vale
- 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
- Address
- 20 Marshall Place, Perth, PH2 8AG
- OS grid reference
- NO 117 231
- Coordinates
- 56.39228, -3.43121
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21 Marshall Place in Perth is a Grade B listed building designed by Robert Reid between 1806 and 1833. It features a symmetrical, 31-bay terraced run that includes an advanced 3-storey, 5-bay section in the center, flanked by 2-storey, 10-bay attic and basement sections on either side, and advanced 3-storey, 3-bay outer pavilions at each end. The building is constructed of pale sandstone ashlar, with some areas painted, and has raised cills at the ground level, a continuous cill course at the first floor, and a moulded eaves cornice. Steps lead down to the main door entrances, which over-sail the basement.
The central section features recessed round-arched windows at the ground level, with radial fanlights above the doorways in the outer bays. The first floor has consoles beneath the windows, while the central bay has blind windows and a blocked central lunette on the second floor, with a stepped blocking detail above. The end pavilions have round-arched windows at the ground level and lunette windows on the second floor, with consoled windows on the first floor of the west pavilion only. Both pavilions are topped with pyramidal roofs that have ball and spike finials.
The building predominantly has 12-pane and plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows, with slated roofs that are pyramidal over the end pavilions. It features broad and tall co-axial ridge and end stacks, clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, some properties boast fine curving cantilevered staircases and partially oval-plan principal rooms with paired curved timber doors. There is a wide variety of plaster and marble chimneypieces, columned and consoled entrance halls, and other Classical detailing throughout the run.
The boundary walls consist of rubble with ashlar coping along Marshall Place, some sections featuring cast-iron railings.
Local climate
20 Marshall 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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