Embden House, Newton Street, Blairgowrie

Circa 1880. Single and 2-storey with attic, 4-bay gabled house with irregular gables, jerkinhead roofs and mock half-timbering. Roughly squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone and timber mullions, timber transoms.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 gabled bays to left (that to centre slightly broader and taller) with 4-light window just to left of centre at ground and rectangular-plan, pitch-roofed 4-light window with single light to each return and half-timbered gablehead just to right; 3 regularly-disposed bipartite windows at 1st floor. Slightly recessed bay to outer right with bipartite window to each floor, that to 1st floor close to eaves.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steeply-pitched gable projecting at centre with boarded timber door to right at ground and small window immediately to left, further small window at 1st floor and on each return; flanking set-back faces under jerkinhead roof with altered window to ground left, lean-to brick garage extension to ground right and original piend-roofed tripartite dormer window above.

SW ELEVATION: gabled bay to right of centre with full-height 6-light rectangular-plan window with half-timbering between floors and in gablehead; small gabled bay to left with projecting sunroom (half-timbering to gablehead) at ground and small bipartite to set-back face above.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: variety of elements to asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation, including jerkinhead bay with dominant stack to left, narrow gabled bay with single storey projection to approximate centre and set-back bay to right with leaded glass to tripartite window at ground.

Largely 3- and 4-pane horizontal glazing patterns to timber casement windows with pivoting top lights, some with leaded diamond-pattern glazing pattern; decoratively-leaded tripartite with coloured panel to NW. Grey slates. Red brick Shavian stacks with cans. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place including some moulded plasterwork cornices, timber fire surrounds, panelled architraved doors, timber reveals and soffits, boarded dadoes. Stairhall with corner fireplace and timber-balustered dog-leg staircase with finialled newel posts. Dining room with honeycomb-moulded/ stylised strapwork ceiling, panelled walls and Jacobethan style carved fireplace with stucco frieze (see Notes).

BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.