The Pretoria Public House, High Street, Crieff

The Pretoria Public House, located on High Street in Crieff, dates from around 1900. This three-storey, four-bay building features Scots Baronial architectural details. It is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, while the sides are finished in snecked rubble. The ground floor has a cornice and an eaves course, with corbels and crowsteps adorning the structure. The windows are fitted with stone mullions and chamfered reveals.

On the south elevation facing High Street, the gable is prominent with an altered canted glass window below a painted name board at the center. There is a window on each floor above, with the first-floor window featuring a cornice. A corbel course runs along the eaves, and a semicircular pediment breaks into a crowstepped gable topped with a thistle finial. The flanking angles are chamfered, each with a two-leaf panelled timber door, leading to canted tripartite windows on each floor above that culminate in a finialled conical roof. To the left, there is an altered window at ground level and a door in the re-entrant angle, with two windows on each floor above and a bipartite window on each floor of the recessed face at the outer left.

The east elevation, facing Mitchell Street, features a ground floor with three irregularly placed windows and a door with a deep fanlight on the outer right. There are two windows on each floor above, along with a large stair window on the outer right. A wallhead stack is located on the left, with another stack breaking the eaves at the center.

The glazing patterns include 2-pane, 4-pane, and plate glass on the ground and first floors on the outer left side, with a margined stair window and modern glazing elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slates arranged in a fishscale pattern on the conical towers. The chimney stacks are made of coped squared rubble and have a full complement of cans, while the skews are ashlar-coped.

Inside, the public house features a timber-panelled bar and a timber fire surround with an over-mirror.