197 High Street, Perth

David Smart, dated 1900. 3-storey and attic, 3-x 3-bay Victorian Renaissance tenement, with canted single-bay corner, situated on prominent corner site. Red sandstone ashlar. Base course with inset basement lights some with prism glass (see Notes), cill course, band course, moulded cornice to ground, bracketed eaves cornice, balustraded parapet with decorative urns. Round-arched, key-stoned openings to ground, pedimented dormers. Windows to 1st storey set within Corinthian alternately pedimented and segmental-arched aedicules. Part-fluted giant Ionic pilasters rise through 1st and 2nd storeys. Some rusticated pilasters to ground.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: round-arched entrance doorway to corner with polished granite Ionic-columns to doorpiece with curved pediment with decorative tympanum with carved datestone 1900. Elevation to Kinnoull Street (E) with round-arched, pedimented doorway to far right with panelled timber entrance door.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. Truncated polygonal spire to corner with iron brattishing and banded grey and green fishscale pattern slates.

INTERIOR: partially seen (2009). Entrance hall with part-glazed entrance door, with flanking timber panels. Hallway with coloured encaustic-tiled floor, well-staircase with stone stairs and timber barley-sugar balusters and timber banister. Some simple cornicing to rooms; some timber fire surrounds. Offices modernised at ground.