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33, 35 Princes Street, Perth

A Category C Listed Building in Perth, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.3942 / 56°23'38"N

Longitude: -3.4285 / 3°25'42"W

OS Eastings: 311916

OS Northings: 723347

OS Grid: NO119233

Mapcode National: GBR 1Z.13QJ

Mapcode Global: WH6QC.9KM0

Plus Code: 9C8R9HVC+MJ

Entry Name: 33, 35 Princes Street, Perth

Listing Name: 33 and 35 Princes Street and 30 Canal Street

Listing Date: 26 August 1977

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 385322

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39589

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200385322

Location: Perth

County: Perth and Kinross

Town: Perth

Electoral Ward: Perth City Centre

Traditional County: Perthshire

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Description

Mid to late 18th century with later additions (see Notes). 2-storey and attic, 3-bay building with commercial premises to ground occupying prominent corner site. Painted rubble with raised margins and rusticated in-and-out quoins. Base course.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered doorpiece to centre flanked by plate glass windows. Moulded cornice between ground and 1st floor (returning to N elevation). 3 closely set windows at 1st floor abutting eaves with 3 canted dormers above.

N (CANAL STREET) ELEVATION: gable end with 2 windows to ground, 1st floor and attic. Further 2-storey, 2-bay addition to right (No 30) with non-traditional door to centre, flanked by enlarged opening to left and blind window to right; half-hipped roof. To W (rear) elevation: low timber door to full height, rounded turnpike stair tower at re-entrant angle.

Grey slate roof. Broad end stacks (chimney to Canal Street rebuilt in brick). Ashlar skews. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

33 and 35 Princes Street is a good example of 18th century building to the South of the city constructed after the removal of the medieval gateways to the town in 1766 and Perth's subsequent expansion and upgrading. It occupies a prominent corner site and forms an important part of the streetscape. The building adopts a traditional 3-bay, 2-storey form with closely set 1st floor fenestration adding to its interest and indicative of its early building date. It is understood to have served as a Temperance Hall during the 19th century. The West section (No 30 Canal Street) is an early 19th century addition, linked at upper levels by way of the turn-pike stair to the rear of the building. Canal Street follows the line of the medieval moat and South wall of the city (no longer extant).

List description updated at resurvey (2009).

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