Hill Primary School, Upper Allan Street, Blairgowrie

Hill Primary School is a Gothic-detailed school building dating from 1878, with an addition and enlargement in 1909. It is constructed of squared and snecked red sandstone rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, some of which are stugged. The building is two storeys high, with eight bays. It features a base course, roll-moulded doorways, pointed-arch traceried and shoulder-arched windows, two-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses, hoodmoulds (some with label stops), relieving arches, raked cills, stone transoms and mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.

The principal south-east elevation is symmetrically fenestrated, with eight-light transomed windows to the ground floor and to the two central bays of the first floor. The remaining bays feature bipartites. A flagpole sits centrally, flanked by gabled bays with centre and flanking buttresses. Hoodmoulds frame relief-carved detail over shoulder-arched windows, and panels in the gableheads read "BUILT 1878" and "ENLARGED 1909". Lower gabled outer bays include a gable on the right with paired, hoodmoulded tripartite windows and a hoodmoulded louvered triangular opening in the gablehead. A gable on the left has a six-light transomed window with moulded windowheads and a raised centre hoodmould incorporating floreate detail, with a similar triangular opening above. Inner returns feature crenellated porches with a modern door and flanking narrow lights, and a further window on each inner return.

The north-east elevation is dominated by a buttressed centre gable with a decoratively-detailed transomed window and triangular opening, flanked by smaller gables with four-light transomed windows. A single window is present in the outer left bay, and a bipartite window in the outer right bay. The south-west elevation mirrors the north-east elevation.

The north-west rear elevation is symmetrically fenestrated, displaying a variety of elements including three two-storey gables at the centre and taller single-storey gables with transomed windows to the outer bays. Later low projections are visible at ground level.

The windows are timber, with multi-pane top-and-bottom-hopper glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates, with stepped ashlar-coped skewes featuring gablet skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes include decorative rainwater hoppers, and there are decorative cast-iron finials and air vents.

The interior is characterized by plain cornices, panelled and part-glazed timber doors, some boarded dadoes, and cast-iron radiators. A central hall is flanked by top-lit stone dog-leg staircases with ironwork balusters and timber handrails, and small mezzanines.

A renovated war memorial from 2000 stands on the site. This consists of a marble obelisk dedicated to the memory of old boys who fell in the Great War, surmounting a polygonal plinth, stepped square base, and a basin for a water fountain.

Ancillary buildings include a gabled piend-and-platform-roofed structure with detailing similar to the main building, and a smaller piend-roofed ancillary with horizontal rooflights.

Original boundary walls of rubble, some low with inset cast-iron railings, are present, along with ball-finialled cast-iron gatepiers and gates.