World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 1 October 2013
Event ID 964866
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/964866
Designed by Andrew Heiton 1858. Plain neo-Jacobean, symmetrical 3-storey coursed rubble front. Central 3 bays have tripartite doorpiece, central 2nd floor dormerhead and timber and lead spirelet flanking gabled bays with corbelled octagonal chimney shafts and 2-storey canted bays: 5 bay links to 2 window advanced gables at ends. Sub-centres advanced and gabled with tripartites at lower 2 floors. Slated roofs, small paned fenestration, chimney heads unfortunately shortened.
The poorhouse was requisitioned as Perth War Hospital in the First World War, providing beds for 100 other ranks.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 1 October 2013; Information from HS listed building description.
