Bowerswell

It is a Grade B listed building and was the childhood home of Effie Gray; she and John Ruskin were married there in 1848.

[2][3] The City of Perth Book of Remembrance for WW2 is housed in the building.

[4] The house was described in the Perth Courier of 24 August 1809 as "lately built", likely by Perth lord provost Thomas Hay Marshall (who died at the property in July 1808),[5] and had a succession of owners before being sold to George Gray, a lawyer, and future father of Effie Gray, in 1827.

[6] It is described at the time of Effie's childhood as "a Regency villa overlooking the city of Perth"[7] (the Regency era officially spanned the years 1811 to 1820, though the term is commonly applied to the longer period of 1795–1837).

It "was only about forty years old in 1842–44 when George Gray undertook an extensive rebuilding in that neo-renaissance style which John [Ruskin] was to assail so comprehensively in his books".