Police Station, Ericht Lane, Blairgowrie

The building is a police station dating from 1913, constructed in a Scots Baronial style. It is two storeys and has an attic. The exterior is built of red bull-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings. A moulded string course runs along the building.

The main, northeast elevation is stepped, featuring a projecting, crenellated tower-like entrance bay in the centre. This bay contains a moulded doorpiece with a broad, panelled timber door, a deep plate glass fanlight, and an attached ‘POLICE’ sign. Above the door is a single window, giving way to a carved panel displaying ‘POLICE STATION’ which breaks into a deep crenellation. Regular fenestration is found in the flanking set-back bays and a crowstepped gable to the outer left, with a corbel to the outer left angle and a stepped corbel course to the jettied gablehead, featuring an arrowslit. The bays to the right of the centre are also regularly fenestrated, with a corniced door in the penultimate bay to the right and a bipartite window to the outer right at ground level. Crowstepped gables are on the outer right and left; the gable to the right is jettied above the first floor, with an arrowslit in the gablehead, and the gable to the left has a relief carved ‘CPC’ in a panel, leading to the gablehead stack.

The northwest elevation has a broad, crowstepped gable in the centre with two windows on each floor, a weathered datestone in the gablehead, and a dominant stack. There is a bipartite window to the outer right at ground level and a single window above. A single-storey, piend-roofed bay extends to the outer right, with a small window and a boundary wall abutting beyond. A blank bay is to the outer left.

The southeast elevation is a blank, crowstepped gable.

The southwest, or rear elevation, is asymmetrically fenestrated with a variety of elements, including outer gables and projecting single-storey wings. The wing to the right, which housed the cells, has a small, domed ridge ventilator.

The windows are timber sash and case windows with 4-pane and plate glass glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates. The stacks are of coped ashlar and bull-faced stone, with cans. Ashlar-coped skews have block skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers featuring gargoyle-like animal heads are also present.

Inside, the building features moulded cornices, boarded reveals, timber doors, and a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase.

Low, saddleback-coped, squared rubble boundary walls with inset ironwork railings are present to the northeast, along with mitre-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers. To the southwest are coped boundary walls and pyramidally-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers.