Torwood House, Torr Hill, St Mary's Road, Birnam is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 February 1976. Mansion house.

Torwood House, Torr Hill, St Mary's Road, Birnam

WRENN ID
sombre-truss-nettle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 February 1976
Type
Mansion house
OS grid reference
NO 032 419
Coordinates
56.5595, -3.57572
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Torwood House, built around 1850, is a notable single-storey and attic mansion in the Jacobethan style designed by William Burn. The west front is symmetrical, featuring two windows and a central gable with a canted bay, while the other sides are asymmetrical. There is an open entrance porch on the south side and a later conservatory at the southwest gable. The house is constructed from local rubble with red sandstone dressings, and it has curvilinear gables and gablets. The windows have lying panes, and the roof is slated with octagonal shafted chimneys.

Local climate

Torwood House, Torr Hill, St Mary's Road, Birnam sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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