County Buildings, 3 South Street, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Commercial, office.
County Buildings, 3 South Street, Perth
- WRENN ID
- odd-beam-lichen
- 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
- Commercial, office
- OS grid reference
- NO 120 234
- Coordinates
- 56.3951, -3.42628
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The County Buildings at 3 South Street in Perth were designed by David Smart and constructed between 1863 and 1866 in the Italian Renaissance style. This two-storey building with an attic features ashlar stonework and quoin ends. The South Street facade has two five-window sections connected by a central recessed bay, which includes pedimented Roman Doric doorpieces. The ground floor has windows with lugged architraves, while the first floor showcases consoled windows with a central segmental pediment and triangular pediments at the ends. The end elevation facing Tay Street has three windows with alternating pediments on the first floor. A distinctive double chimney feature incorporates twin arched windows with key blocks and supporting scrolls. The roof is slated.
Local climate
County Buildings, 3 South Street, 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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