Perth High School

Perth High School is a six-year, non-denominational comprehensive secondary school in Perth, Scotland. Established in 1950 at Gowans Terrace, the school features a post-war prefabricated structure of a type that had not previously been used for any large school in Scotland. The school relocated to its present location in 1971, two years after the opening in 1969 of the adjacent Oakbank Primary School. The 1971 Perth High School building consists of a complex centred around a four-storey main teaching block, and stands in extensive grounds occupying a position on a hill overlooking Oakbank Road and Viewlands Road West. Construction began in 2023, on a brand new, modern teaching facility on the site due for completion in August 2025. The new facility will have a capacity for 1600 pupils, and 140 teaching staff, and feature a 3G sports pitch, multi-use games area, and a cycle pump track. The old building is scheduled to be demolished upon the opening of the new facility. An end-of-school Open Evening was held on 19 June 2025 to celebrate the 50-year history of the 1971 building. Former pupils were invited back for a tour, barbecue and live music entertainment. The 1971 Perth High School closed to pupils on 24 June 2025. Pupils returned to the new building in August 2025.

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Viewlands House

Viewlands House is an historic building in the Viewlands area immediately to the west of the centre of Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Located on Viewlands Road, it is a Category B listed building, built around 1840. One of its main features is its Ionic order-columned porch with balustraded parapet. A twelve-room extension was added in 1997, bringing the building's total up to 32. Formerly a training college for Perth-based General Accident Assurance Corporation, it is now an Abbeyfield retirement home.

Perth Royal Infirmary

Perth Royal Infirmary is a district hospital in Perth. The Royal Infirmary serves a population of around 182,000 across the City of Perth and the wider Perth and Kinross area. It is managed by NHS Tayside.

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Cherrybank Gardens

Cherrybank Gardens was a public garden in the southwestern outskirts of the Scottish city of Perth. Originally Bell's Cherrybank Gardens, when it was created in 1984 by Scotch whisky producers Bell's, whose headquarters were adjacent to the property, the gardens comprised 7 acres (2.8 ha). It included over 900 varieties of heather, the largest collection of its kind in the United Kingdom. Designed in the late 1970s, the gardens featured a sundial designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay. In 2002, the gardens were gifted to Scotland's Garden Trust (SGT) by Diageo plc, the multi-national company created following the merger of Bell's owners, United Distillers (and their parent, drinks group Guinness), with International Distillers & Vintners (and their parent, hotel group Grand Metropolitan). Two years later, in March 2004, the gardens announced its intention to develop an adjacent site into a £30 million National Garden for Scotland named The Calyx. In 2007, the project failed to gain the required lottery funding. The collapse of the Calyx scheme brought about the closure of the gardens in 2008, despite a petition by local residents. In September 2008, six months after its closure, it was announced that the gardens were due to reopen, but it failed again. In 2012, the property was sold to an energy company.

Pitheavlis Castle

Pitheavlis Castle , located in Perth, Scotland, was built in the late 16th century. Now a Category A listed building, it stands in a residential neighbourhood on Needless Road. No historical event is connected with the castle. The castle was the home of the Oliphant family until the 17th century. It later became the property of the Murray family. In the early 20th century, it was bought by Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank, then whisky baron Sir Robert Usher. He owned it until 1920. It is now divided into flats.