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Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, Perth

A Category B Listed Building in Perth, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.3976 / 56°23'51"N

Longitude: -3.4182 / 3°25'5"W

OS Eastings: 312558

OS Northings: 723722

OS Grid: NO125237

Mapcode National: GBR 20.0S1X

Mapcode Global: WH6QC.GGHB

Plus Code: 9C8R9HXJ+3P

Entry Name: Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, Perth

Listing Name: Bowerswell Road Bowerswell

Listing Date: 20 May 1965

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 385045

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39388

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200385045

Location: Perth

County: Perth and Kinross

Town: Perth

Electoral Ward: Perth City Centre

Traditional County: Perthshire

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Description

1848, probably by Andrew Heiton & Son. Italianate 2-storey

ashlar asymmetrical with 3-storey entrance tower at NE and

service court at NW, finely detailed. Tower on NE front has

arched doorpiece with 1st floor balustraded balcony over on console-cantilever brackets, single arched windows top floor, broad-eaved low-pitched pyramid roof; SE front has

asymmetrical gable with canted bay bearing consoled 1st floor

balcony and cartouche over 1st floor window, S bay tripartite

with cartouche parapet; 2 canted bays SW front. NW wing has

consoled window and niche features. Broad-eaved slated roofs, square-shafted chimneys. Rubble garden walls with gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Historic interest: home of Effie Gray, wife first of John

Ruskin and then of Sir John Everett Millais.

Part of B group with items 5, 38, 105-109, 217-222.

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