Appleton House, Station Road, Errol

Appleton House is a mid-19th century, two-storey, three-bay former bank house exhibiting classical and Scottish architectural influences. Constructed from bull-faced snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, the house features a raised base course and stepped dividing course incorporating downpipes. The windows are round-headed, with unusual tracery to those on the first floor front. The northwest elevation is the principal facade. A full-height, slightly advanced gable is centrally positioned, leading to a stone porch with a trefoil fanlight above a six-panelled timber door, itself set within a hoodmould incorporating a small moulded panel and an incised scroll detail. Flanking gables are similarly detailed, with tripartite windows on the ground floor right, a traceried bipartite window above, and chamfered angles corbelled to square at the eaves; the left-hand gable features a canted four-light window with corbelled outer angles and a window matching that on the right. The southwest elevation has a broad gabled bay to the left with a corbelled stack, a gabled porch providing access to a tripartite window and basket-arched door on the return to the left, and a further narrow gabled bay to the right. The northeast elevation features a broad tripartite window on the ground floor left, leading up to a triple-bracketted oriel window breaking the eaves into a dormerhead, and a slightly advanced gable with a full-height projecting shouldered stack. The southeast (rear) elevation displays a variety of elements, including outer gables flanking a narrow piended centre bay with a satellite dish. The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates, topped with paired, corniced polygonal ridge stacks, chamfered arrises, sawtooth coping, and polygonal cans. Deeply overhanging eaves have plain and decorative bargeboarding. The interior was not inspected in 2000. A slated rubble former coach house and stable, with a hay loft, stands nearby, featuring boarded timber doors and timber sash and case windows with a twelve-pane glazing pattern. Low semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls are punctuated by ironwork pedestrian gates. Higher semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls support pyramidally-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers and timber gates.