Newstead House, 1 To 3 Ancaster Road, Crieff

Newstead House is a large villa dated 1881, with later 20th-century extensions. It is situated on a corner site in Crieff and is now sub-divided. The house is two storeys with an attic and a raised basement, and presents as a three-bay villa with a Baronial porch. The exterior is constructed of narrow, rock-faced courses with ashlar dressings, and incorporates a red sandstone porch with banded rusticated and polished ashlar. A moulded band course runs along the building. Openings are a mix of basket-arched and square-headed designs, with keystones and segmental arches to the porch. The windows have stone transoms and mullions, with stop-chamfered arrises. Triangular-plan dormer windows feature timber sides and decorative cast-iron finials.

The south (entrance) elevation is symmetrical. The central bay is dominated by a single-storey porch with ball-finialled towers at the outer angles, flanking a raised-centre parapet displaying a monogrammed shield. There is a door opening to the right of the porch and a decorative leaded window to the left. A set-back face has a panelled timber door to the right and a leaded window to the left. Above, a recessed face contains a first-floor window and a narrow light in the gablehead with a stack. The bay to the right of the centre has a bipartite window on the ground floor and a single window above. Further single windows are positioned on the first floor to the left, and dormer windows are situated over the outer bays flanking the gablehead.

The west elevation features a raised basement leading to a towering elevation. A flat-roofed addition extends from a recessed centre bay, with a bipartite window on each floor above. The first-floor window has a pierced balustrade on moulded consoles, and a dormer window is positioned above. The right gable has a five-light square-plan window on the ground floor, and a similarly sized, corniced tripartite window above. A keystoned round-headed bipartite window is set in the gablehead. The left gable mirrors the right, but with a canted ground-floor window.

The east elevation displays windows to the ground and first floors of a gabled left bay, and to the centre bay, with a coloured glass bipartite window to the attic. An extended bay is present to the right.

The north elevation exhibits a variety of architectural features, including a dated gablehead flanked by dormer windows.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, whilst the porch features decoratively coloured and leaded glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates with a three-part rooflight. Coped ashlar stacks are topped with cans. Overhanging eaves are finished with moulded bargeboarding. Decorative cast-iron finials are incorporated into the design. The interior was not inspected in 2001.

The site is enclosed by stepped, ashlar-coped squared rubble boundary walls, with square-section rusticated ashlar gatepiers. The gatepiers have chamfered angles and semicircular moulding to each face of the pyramidal cap, surmounted by a ball finial.