Knockendarroch House Hotel, Higher Oakfield, Pitlochry

Knockendarroch House Hotel is a large house, originally built in 1880 and extended in 1998, located at Higher Oakfield, Pitlochry. The original building is two storeys high, with three bays, and features a steeply pitched, piend roof. A prominent three-stage Baronial-style entrance tower dominates the front. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked rubble masonry with stugged ashlar dressings. Architectural details include a raked base course, moulded dividing courses, and a mutuled eaves cornice. Windows are generally segmental- and round-headed, with stop-chamfered arrises, stone transoms, and mullions.

The west (principal) elevation is symmetrical, with the advanced tower centrally placed. The tower’s first stage features a broad bipartite window with leaded and coloured glass. A decorative carved panel sits above, followed by a further bipartite window. The third stage has a carved panel dated “1880” above a round-headed window flanked by nookshafts, set on moulded brackets and breaking through the eaves into a finialled pedimented dormerhead with a circular detail on the tympanum. To the right of the tower, a short flight of steps leads to a round-headed, pedimented doorcase with stylized capitals, diamond-pattern moulding, a bolection finial, and a two-leaf panelled timber door. Single windows are present on each stage, with the third-stage window mirroring the tower's detailing. The left return has coloured leaded glazing in the first-floor window, and blinded and blocked windows matching the tower's upper design. Outer bays have bipartite windows to both floors.

The south elevation is five bays wide, with a tripartite window in the left-ground-floor bay, and a four-light canted window with a moulded windowhead to the outer left. Bipartite windows are present in each bay on the first floor, and two flat-roofed dormer windows are above. A lower projecting timber wing, added in 1998 on a stone base, extends to the right, featuring a central single window and flanking bipartite windows to each floor, all behind four columns that support a deep overhang and verandah with ironwork railings.

The east (entrance) elevation includes a timber door to the right of centre, a window to the right, and a bipartite window to the left. The first floor has regular fenestration, and a lower timber wing extends to the left with two windows to each floor, matching the south wing’s detailing.

The north elevation consists of five bays, with a canted window (similar to the south elevation) to the outer right at ground level and a bipartite window above. The two bays to the left have single windows on each floor, a bipartite window occupies the penultimate bay, and a further single window completes the row.

A small inner courtyard, accessible from the northeast side, features a four-light transomed stair window with leaded and coloured glass.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, with a 2-pane upper sash over plate glass lower glazing, with plate glass in the canted windows. The third stage of the tower has margined glass. The timber wing uses horizontal-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates, with a fishscale pattern on the tower. The chimneys are shouldered and coped ashlar, with some decorative cans, and cast-iron downpipes feature decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior, last inspected in 2000, includes decorative plasterwork cornicing and some marble fireplaces.