The Old Rectory And Rectory Cottage, Rectory Road, Crieff

The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage date to around 1870 and were likely designed by Robert Ewan of Glasgow. The Old Rectory is a two-story and attic, three-bay Gothic rectory built primarily of bull-faced rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. It features a base course, band course, and a corbelled eaves course. The architecture incorporates shouldered-arch door surrounds, pointed-arch tabbed window openings, stone mullions, and chamfered arrises. The main, southeast elevation is distinguished by a stone porch in a re-entrant angle, a nine-panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight angled to the east (with a dated panel in the finialled gablehead above), lancet windows to the flanking returns, and a single window at the first floor that breaks the eaves into a steeply-pitched dormerhead. A bipartite window is found on each floor of the bay to the right, the first-floor window being smaller and also breaking the eaves. A broad, advanced gable to the left displays a canted window at ground level, a bipartite window above, and a glazed arrowslit in the gablehead. The southwest elevation has a slightly advanced chimney gable with a bipartite window at ground level (the right-hand light of which has been altered to a door), a smaller bipartite window to the first floor, and a carved cross in a panel above, flanked by shaped gablehead moulding and a shouldered stack. A glazed door is located immediately to the right within a re-entrant angle, with a small window to the left and a single window to each floor of the bay to the left, the first-floor window also breaking the eaves. The northeast elevation, facing Rectory Road, is gabled with a full-height stepped chimney breast bearing a carved panel to the first floor, a window to each floor to the right, and Rectory Cottage situated to the right. The rear, northwest elevation showcases gabled architecture with square-headed windows at each floor and a modern conservatory on the right. Modern glazing is used throughout. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, with a diamond pattern on the porch and canted window. The chimneys are banded ashlar stacks, and the skews are ashlar-coped, stepped to resemble crowsteps, with moulded and mitre skewputts and decorative gablehead finials. Cast-iron downpipes are fitted with decorative rainwater hoppers. Internally, the rectory features decorative plasterwork cornices and roses, panelled shutters, and architraved doors, along with a dog-leg staircase with Gothic cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail.

Rectory Cottage is a single-story, three-bay, gabled cottage with modern windows constructed of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, incorporating shouldered openings, a corbel course, stone mullions, and chamfered arrises. The northeast elevation has a small, pitch-roofed stone porch, a boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges and a small square fanlight in the gablehead, a single window to the right, and a bipartite window to the left. Two triangular dormer windows flank a later, small flat-roofed dormer to the right and a small square rooflight to the left. A low, lean-to bay is on the northwest elevation with a boarded timber door to the right and a small square opening immediately to the left, while the southwest elevation features a single window with The Old Rectory adjoining. The property is enclosed by ashlar-coped stepped rubble boundary walls that have square-section, gablet-coped ashlar gatepiers and decorative ironwork gates.