St Magdalene's Gunpowder Magazine, Friarton Quarry, Gleneagles Road is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 2008. Gunpowder magazine.

St Magdalene's Gunpowder Magazine, Friarton Quarry, Gleneagles Road

WRENN ID
other-stone-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 February 2008
Type
Gunpowder magazine
OS grid reference
NO 113 211
Coordinates
56.37466, -3.43714
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Magdalene's Gunpowder Magazine, located at Friarton Quarry on Gleneagles Road, was built in 1878 and is a rare example of a 5-bay, rectangular-plan gunpowder magazine with a piend roof. It is situated on sloping ground at the western outskirts of Perth, featuring a high boundary wall. The structure is made of dressed and squared pink and grey rubble, has a deep eaves course, a slated roof, and ironwork detailing.

The north and south side elevations each have five small vertical window openings above five horizontally-aligned openings, which provide indirect ventilation for the raised basement below. The west elevation includes two underfloor air vents that flank the steps leading to a central timber door, which is positioned below a small window opening.

Local climate

St Magdalene's Gunpowder Magazine, Friarton Quarry, Gleneagles Road 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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