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Latitude: 56.3935 / 56°23'36"N
Longitude: -3.4339 / 3°26'2"W
OS Eastings: 311580
OS Northings: 723285
OS Grid: NO115232
Mapcode National: GBR 1Z.12J5
Mapcode Global: WH6QC.7K2H
Plus Code: 9C8R9HV8+CC
Entry Name: 37 King Street, Perth
Listing Name: 37 King Street, Including Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 26 August 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 385191
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39509
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200385191
Location: Perth
County: Perth and Kinross
Town: Perth
Electoral Ward: Perth City Centre
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1835. 2-storey, 3- x 3-bay Classical villa on prominent corner site. Painted tooled, squared and coursed rubble with smooth margins; concrete harl to rear. Eaves course and cornice. Blocking course to central bay. Raised cills.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION TO W: slight advanced central bay with 9-panel timber entrance door with 6-pane, lozenge-shape glazing pattern to fanlight above. Pilastered, corniced doorpiece with balcony above with decorative metal railing. Shallow Doric pilasters to outer bays. Later external slatted timber shutters.
ELEVATION TO S: blind window openings to left bay.
Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended roof. Grey slates. Coped wallhead and ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: (seen 2009): original room plan largely extant. Hallway with part-glazed timber door with sidelights. Curved staircase with decorative iron balusters and timber handrail. Some simple, decorative plasterwork cornicing.
BOUNDARY WALLS: to S, W and N. Low, coped rubble walls to S and E surmounted by later metal railings. Taller, coped rubble wall to N.
This is a prominently-sited corner villa which is a significant addition to the streetscape of this residential area of Perth. The villa has simple decorative detailing in the pilastered doorpiece and the outer bay pilasters. The upper floor windows sit close to the wallhead and are indicative of its early date.
The Southern sections of King Street and James Street were laid out in a grid pattern in 1803, to accommodate expansion of the city. The land had previously been a garden for the King James Hospital, which is situated immediately to the North (see separate listing). Individual plots were then feued for housing in 1830. Conditions of the feu meant that all the houses had to be set back at a certain distance from the street, with their gardens to the front. Most of the houses, including this one, are apparent in the 1837 Map.
Category changed from B to C(S) and list description updated at resurvey (2009).
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