31, 33, 37 High Street, Blairgowrie

Alex Johnstone of Dundee, 1870. 3-storey with basement, 4-bay Mechanics Institute and Library with shops at ground (upper floors converted to flats circa 1975), closing terrace to SW. Polished ashlar and rubble. Mutuled eaves cornice and pyramidal roof. Four-centre-arched door and windows, latter set into similarly-arched vertical panels with dividing pilaster-like strips. Stepped raked cills. Hoodmould with block label stops. Stone mullions and stop-chamfered arrises.

SE (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with hoodmoulded doorway incorporating blind panel at centre with flanking circular detail enclosing blind shield, and deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight. Traditional shop front to left with deep-set door at outer left, bay to right mirrors the above. 4 bipartite windows to each floor above with blind shield in moulded panel between floors at each bay, and small circular detail to each 2nd floor windowhead.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation with dominant shouldered wallhead stack at centre.

Plate glass glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks, that to SW truncated.

INTERIOR: stone-flagged hall and 2-leaf part-glazed screen door leading to stairhall with cantilevered dog-leg staircase, decoratively-finialled square-section newel posts, barley twist cast-iron balusters and some boarded dadoes. Fine decorative plasterwork and architraved doors with moulded panels. Basement below No 37 (see Notes) with partly blocked bakers oven.