Torr Hill, Urlar Road, Aberfeldy

Torr Hill is an 1899 villa situated on Urlar Road, Aberfeldy. It is a two- and single-storey, three-bay gabled building notable for its fine interior and coloured glass. The walls are harled with red sandstone ashlar dressings, featuring a base course, a first-floor cornice, and a cill course to the west. Engaged colonettes and stone mullions are also prominent.

The west (principal) elevation is symmetrical. The central bay has steps leading to a doorpiece with engaged columns, a panelled timber door, and a glazed fanlight, with flanking narrow lights and further columns; all glazing is coloured and leaded. A timber-balustered verandah forms a porch above, with a French window breaking through the eaves into a dormer gablet at the first floor. Slightly advanced bays flank the centre, each with four-light canted windows and chamfered gableheads. These gableheads bear relief-carved shields – one displays the date "1899", and the other the letter "M".

The south elevation features a broad gabled bay to the left with a window and, at the centre, two windows to each floor and a bipartite window to each floor to the right. The first-floor bipartite window breaks through the eaves into a dormerhead. Six solar heating panels are located on the roof pitch. A timber door is set within a single-storey piended bay to the outer right.

The north elevation presents a broad gabled bay to the right with a ground-floor window and a bipartite window to the left, with a single window above breaking through the eaves into a dormerhead. A gabled single-storey bay is located to the outer left.

The east (rear) elevation has asymmetrical fenestration, consisting of a single-storey piended bay to the left and a pitch-roofed, set-back bay to the right.

The windows are mostly timber sash and case, with upper sashes featuring 16 panes over plate glass lower sashes, although some are replica PVCu lacking depth. The roof is covered in grey slates, and there are grouped, banded and coped ashlar stacks, decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials, overhanging eaves with decorative pierced bargeboarding, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior is characterized by decorative plasterwork cornicing, panelled shutters, and a timber dog-leg staircase with decorative balusters, square newels and dado rails. The vestibule contains a mosaic-tiled floor and a fine screen door with original coloured glass depicting birds and flowers, reflecting the details of the exterior door and window panels. A carved fire surround featuring embossed leather above depicts putti playing musical instruments on the southwest side, while a carved timber fire surround with a tiled cheek, a brass canopy, pilaster niches and a large mirrored overmantel is found on the northwest side.

The property is enclosed by harled quadrant walls with ashlar coping and inset railings. Four square-section harled gatepiers, each topped with a deep ashlar frieze, cornice, pyramidal cope on ball feet, support two-leaf decorative ironwork gates. Semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls also define the site.