7 South St John's Place is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 September 2009. Commercial building.

7 South St John's Place

WRENN ID
sharp-basalt-heron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 September 2009
Type
Commercial building
Address
7 South St John's Place, PH1 5SU
OS grid reference
NO 119 235
Coordinates
56.39554, -3.42868
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 South St John's Place is a late 19th century, two-storey, three-bay Neo-Jacobean commercial building. It features a large Dutch gablet with a moulded crest at the center. The exterior is constructed of stugged red sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. There is a base course, and a moulded string and cill course separates the ground and first floors. The ground floor has large plate glass shop windows flanking a centrally located basket-arched doorway, which includes a timber panelled door and a twin box fanlight. Above this, there is a corbelled-out, balustraded balcony detail.

On the first floor, a gently bowed, quatrepartite window with stone mullions and a transom is set within a keystoned segmental arched recess. The pedimented Dutch gablet above features a carved roundel at the center displaying the Perth City crest, which includes a double-headed imperial eagle bearing a shield with a holy lamb and a banner inscribed 'Pro Rege Lege Et Grege'. Flanking this are stone mullioned and transomed bipartite windows.

At the rear, facing Flesher's Vennel, there is a single-storey wing from the 19th century. Its front wall contains a carved stone with a thistle emblem, the initials LR MB, and the date 1766. This wing has multi-pane glazing in its plate glass window and door, along with a timber fascia.

The first floor predominantly features single-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped red brick end stacks with clay cans, coped skews, and shouldered and corbelled skewputts. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods, which are recessed behind the string and cill courses and feature ornate hoppers.

Local climate

7 South St John's Place 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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