Royal Hotel, 53 Allan Street, Blairgowrie

The Royal Hotel, located at 53 Allan Street in Blairgowrie, was built in 1852. It is a three-storey, five-bay classical hotel designed in an astylar style, situated in an irregular terrace on a slope that descends to the southeast. The building features ashlar stonework, which is painted on the southwest side, and includes ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include base and second-floor cill courses, a ground floor cornice that matches the first floor cill course, and an eaves cornice topped with a deep scrolled blocking course.

On the southwest elevation, the central bay at ground level has a stop-chamfered doorpiece topped with a crested square pediment that is integrated into a full-width cornice. This leads to a margined and corniced window on the first floor, flanked by carved roundels at the base. The ground and first floors feature windows in the flanking bays, while smaller windows are present in each bay on the second floor.

The northwest elevation displays a regular arrangement of windows across three widely spaced bays on each floor, with a later projection that is not in keeping with the original character between the center and right bays. A prominent shouldered ashlar chimney stack is located on the right side.

On the northeast elevation, there is a projecting gabled bay on the left and a first-floor lean-to, along with a vertically-astragalled conservatory on the return to the right. The windows throughout the hotel are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the shouldered and coped ashlar stacks are topped with polygonal chimney cans.