The Rectory, Oak Road, Birnam Little Dunkeld, Scotland
Listed Building Data
The Rectory, Oak Road, Birnam has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 343661 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 11091
- Canmore ID
- 227612
- Category
- B
- Name
- The Rectory, Oak Road, Birnam
- Parish
- Little Dunkeld
- County
- Perth and Kinross
- Easting
- 303265
- Northing
- 741834
- Date Listed
- 16 February 1976
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Late Victorian villa. 2-storey and attic 2-window (1 bipartite) and canted bay, bracketted eaves piended slated roof. Re-categorised as C(S) from B for Group (2006). The listing relates specifically to the group interest of the subject. It applies, as always, to interior as well as exterior, as appropriate to building type.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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.
