Embden House, Newton Street, Blairgowrie

Embden House is a house dating to circa 1880. It is a single and two-storey building with an attic, and has four gables with irregular arrangements, jerkinhead roofs, and mock half-timbering. The exterior is constructed of roughly squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Windows are stone and timber mullioned, with timber transoms.

The south-east, or principal, elevation features three gabled bays to the left, the central one slightly broader and taller. A four-light window is located just to the left of the centre at ground level. Above is a rectangular-plan, pitch-roofed four-light window with a single light to each return, and a half-timbered gablehead to the right. There are also three regularly disposed bipartite windows at the first floor. A slightly recessed bay is to the outer right, featuring a bipartite window to each floor, the first floor window close to the eaves.

The north-east, or entrance, elevation has a steeply-pitched gable projecting at the centre. This contains a boarded timber door to the right at ground level, and a small window immediately to the left. A further small window is present at the first floor, and on each return. Flanking set-back faces are under a jerkinhead roof, with an altered window to the ground floor left, a lean-to brick garage extension to the ground floor right, and an original piend-roofed tripartite dormer window above.

The south-west elevation presents a gabled bay to the right of centre, featuring a full-height six-light rectangular-plan window with half-timbering between floors and in the gablehead. A small gabled bay is to the left, with a projecting sunroom (with half-timbering to the gablehead) at ground level and a small bipartite window to the set-back face above.

The north-west, or rear, elevation has a variety of features, presenting an asymmetrically-fenestrated appearance. This includes a jerkinhead bay with a dominant stack to the left, a narrow gabled bay with a single-storey projection to approximately the centre, and a set-back bay to the right, featuring leaded glass to a tripartite window at ground level.

The majority of the timber casement windows have horizontal glazing patterns of three and four panes, with pivoting top lights. Some feature a leaded diamond-pattern glazing pattern, and one tripartite window has coloured panels. The roof is covered with grey slates, topped by red brick Shavian stacks with cans. Overhanging eaves have plain bargeboarding.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, including moulded plasterwork cornices, timber fire surrounds, panelled architraved doors, and timber reveals and soffits. A boarded dado is also present. The stairhall contains a corner fireplace and a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase with finialled newel posts. The dining room features a honeycomb-moulded/stylised strapwork ceiling, panelled walls, and a Jacobethan style carved fireplace with a stucco frieze.

The property is bounded by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.