Kinnesswood, The Cobbles, Poets House is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Kinnesswood, The Cobbles, Poets House

WRENN ID
sheer-shingle-alder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
House
Address
Kinnesswood, The Cobbles, Poets House, KY13 9HL
OS grid reference
NO 176 030
Coordinates
56.21305, -3.32957
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Poets House, also known as The Cobbles, is an earlier 18th-century building that stands two storeys tall. It is constructed of random rubble and features a pantiled roof, which was formerly thatched. The building includes an office at the northern end and is accompanied by a garden wall.

Local climate

Kinnesswood, The Cobbles, Poets House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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