3 St Leonards Bank, Perth

Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical Classical villa. W Baillie, 1903, 2-storey gabled billiard room extension to rear (W), forming T-plan. Situated behind long sloping garden to E facing South Inch and with rear to St Leonard's Bank. Ashlar to principle elevations; largely stugged, coursed rubble with ashlar margins to other elevations. Base course, band course, overhanging bracketed timber eaves. Some raised cills. Some round-arched window openings to billiard room. Clasping conical-roofed low stair turret with banded fishscale slates and iron finial to re-entrant angle to N.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION TO E: central timber porch with fine metalwork insets. 6-panel timber entrance door with 5-light fanlight above.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows, some casement windows to 1903 extension. Piended roof, grey slates. Corniced wallhead stacks with decorative cans.

INTERIOR: (seen 2009). Original room-plan largely extant. Hallway with part-glazed door with wide part-glazed sidelights and segmental-arched fanlight above. Timber dog-leg staircase with unusual scrolled floral-pattern open ironwork balustrade with timber banister and newel post with carved gryphon. 6-panel timber doors, Some cast-iron fire places. Some decorative cornicing. Large former billiard room with fine open timber ceiling and pendants.

BOUNDARY WALLS: to N, S and E. Coped rubble with decorative iron gate and later railings.

TO WEST: banded, capped ashlar gatepiers and round-arched Gibbsian door surround with 9-panel timber entrance door.