5 Pitheavlis Cottages, Necessity Brae, Perth is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1977.

5 Pitheavlis Cottages, Necessity Brae, Perth

WRENN ID
worn-storey-thunder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 August 1977
OS grid reference
NO 096 224
Coordinates
56.38556, -3.46454
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 Pitheavlis Cottages, located on Necessity Brae in Perth, was built around 1920 and is designed in the English Arts-and-Crafts style, possibly by James Miller. The main block is a single-storey structure with a dormerless attic, featuring harled side and centre gables. The centre gable has a kerb roof and is slate hung, complemented by twin, brick-built canted bays. There are four half-timber and brick porches, which showcase herringbone work in the re-entrant angles at the gables, and the roofs are slated.

The east and west blocks form a single-storey U-plan layout, also harled, with two half-timber and brick porches that include herringbone work in the re-entrant angles. The window surrounds are made of header bricks, with every third brick laid as a stretcher at the rybats, and these blocks also feature slated roofs.

Local climate

5 Pitheavlis Cottages, Necessity Brae, Perth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 67 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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