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Kinnoull Terrace is a street in the
Kinnoull Kinnoull is a parish in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately half a mile northeast of Perth city centre. Beginning at the level of the River Tay, which separates the parish from Perth, Kinnoull's terrain continues to rise as it cont ...
parish of
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, Scotland. A
cul-de-sac A dead end, also known as a ''cul-de-sac'' (; , ), a no-through road or a no-exit road, is a street with only one combined inlet and outlet. Dead ends are added to roads in urban planning designs to limit traffic in residential areas. Some d ...
, it contains five properties (four
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s and one double villa), each of which is of listed status and dating from the 19th century. The street was specifically designed, in the mid-19th century, to take advantage of its viewpoint across the
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, as was the case with the six villas in
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, a few hundred yards to the north. Noted architectural historian
Charles McKean Charles McKean FRSE FRSA FRHistS FRIBA (16 July 1946 – 29 September 2013) was a Scottish historian, author and scholar. Biography McKean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 16 July 1946. He was educated at Fettes College, the University of P ...
observed that those with "money of the 9thcentury jostled for prime sites and views on Dundee Road and Kinnoull Terrace". Several notable architects were used to design the properties, including Andrew Heiton and David Smart. The three properties on the western side of the street each have gates in the communal boundary wall that runs along a stretch of the Dundee Road to the west;''Perth and Kinross'', John Gifford (2007), p. 655 however, the one for Langlands (formerly Murrayville), the northernmost of the three, has been filled in. Several of the properties appear on maps of Perth from the 1860s.


Villas

;Western side *2, Murrayville (now
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) – Category C listed *4, Gaskhill – Category C listed *6, Witchhill House – Category B listed ;Eastern side *1–3,
Craigievar and Darnick Craigievar and Darnick is an historic double villa in Kinnoull, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Located on Kinnoull Terrace, it is a Category B listed building, built around 1870. The work of architect Andrew Heiton, who lived at the property upon ...
(double villa) – Category B listed *5,
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– Category C listed Another, smaller property on the street was formerly the offices of John McLaren and Philip Russell Diplock, architects and planning consultants. Known as "the Den", it is Category C listed.


Architects

The architect of the double villa Craigievar and Darnick was Andrew Heiton, who also lived at the property upon its completion in 1870. It remained in the Heiton family until 1927, when Andrew Granger Heiton's widow, Catherine, sold it. David Smart designed Witchhill House, which was completed around 1860.Villa, 6 Kinnoull Terrace
– Dictionary of Scottish Architects


See also

*
List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Perth, Scotland. List :''All entries, addresses and coordinates are based on data froHistoric Scotland This data falls under thOpen Government Licence' ...


References

{{reflist, 2 Streets in Perth, Scotland