Wardheads is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 September 2001. Castle.
Wardheads
- WRENN ID
- drifting-bonework-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 September 2001
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NO 247 242
- Coordinates
- 56.40486, -3.22065
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wardheads is a late 18th to early 19th century, two-storey, four-bay house with a T-plan and a later addition. The exterior is harled with painted margins and features stone mullions.
On the southeast (principal) elevation, there are three symmetrical bays on the left, with a stone porch at the center that has a pitch roof and a finial. The flanking bays contain windows, with the right bay featuring a full-width later conservatory or garden room. The first floor has regular fenestration with finialled pediments that break the eaves. To the outer right, there is an advanced gable (added later) with a four-part window at the ground level and a tripartite window above on the first floor.
The northwest (rear) elevation has an advanced gable on the left with an arrowslit at the ground level. To the outer right, there is a window above, and a door on the return to the right with a stone canopy, along with a window on each floor to the return on the left. A recessed bay to the right has a window to the left on the first floor, above a lean-to bay with a part-blocked window.
On the northeast elevation, there is a single window to the right at ground level and two windows on the first floor, with a shouldered wallhead stack at the center.
The southwest elevation features a gabled design with a multi-pane glazed door to the left at ground level. The windows throughout have 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped harled stacks with some cans. The eaves are overhanging, with timber-braced gableheads on the southeast and southwest elevations.
Local climate
Wardheads receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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