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Tower Buildings, Station Road, Birnam

A Category B Listed Building in Little Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.5584 / 56°33'30"N

Longitude: -3.5769 / 3°34'36"W

OS Eastings: 303175

OS Northings: 741824

OS Grid: NO031418

Mapcode National: GBR V3.CT2R

Mapcode Global: WH5ND.1F04

Plus Code: 9C8RHC5F+86

Entry Name: Tower Buildings, Station Road, Birnam

Listing Name: Tower Buildings, Perth Road and Station Road, Birnam

Listing Date: 16 February 1976

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 343701

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB11127

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Birnam, Station Road, Tower Buildings

ID on this website: 200343701

Location: Little Dunkeld

County: Perth and Kinross

Electoral Ward: Strathtay

Parish: Little Dunkeld

Traditional County: Perthshire

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Description

Dated 1859 at weather vane. Victorian gothic, 2-storey
basement and attic V-plan corner building with original
ground floor shops having 4-centre arched glazing; diagonally
set slim square corner tower of 3 storeys with pyramid roof,
Tudorish doorway with balcony over 2nd floor gothic window.
Snecked rubble, buft sandstone dressings, stop chamfers,
slated.

Statement of Interest

Items 68-100 form B group with items 18-20 in original list.

An outstanding example of an early-mid Victorian Highland resort in a setting of great natural beauty, built mainly

following the opening of the Perth and Dunkeld Railway in 1856. In 1865 it was noted that the trade of Dunkeld and

Birnam had suffered with the extension of the Railway. The main development was thus between 1856 and 1863, when Birnam was the terminus.

Very completely preserved to date St Mary's Tower and Birnam House being the only serious losses while the only intrusion of any consequence has been a modern bungalow inserted between Birnam Hotel and Oransay.

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