104 Atholl Road, Pitlochry

104 Atholl Road, Pitlochry

A 3-storey Renaissance style terrace of shops with flatted dwellings above, designed by John Leonard and built in 1897, with alterations made to the ground floor. The building comprises a 9-bay main structure above ground level with a single-storey shop projecting at the outer left. It is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings; the bank section features marble cladding. The building is finished with a deep eaves course and cornice, pedimented doors, and heavily pedimented dormerheads to the second-floor windows which break the eaves line. Blind balustrades and stone mullions are characteristic features throughout.

The principal south-west elevation facing the street has largely altered ground-floor shop fronts, though three central bays retain their original scroll-bracketed and corniced fascia boards. The Post Office occupies the centre bay with a fixed display window, deep-set panelled timber door and fanlight to the right, and a similar door to the left. To the right of centre is a traditional shop with an incanted centre door in its bay, a panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight, and three windows. The outer right comprises the altered bank with contrasting bands of marble and stylised carved thistles. Two modern shops occupy bays to the left of centre, with a further door at the outer left. All ground-floor elements are set behind a modern glazed canopy with slender iron columns and decorative brackets. The projecting single-storey jewellers shop at the outer left is traditionally detailed with a 2-leaf part-glazed timber door at a rounded angle, a fixed display window, and is surmounted by a deep fascia and cornice. The first floor features a wide-centre tripartite window to the centre bay flanked by single windows, two bipartite windows, and a similar tripartite window to the outer bays. The second floor fenestration mirrors the first floor but incorporates pedimented dormerheads breaking the eaves. Those flanking the tripartite windows extend into dominant heavy scroll-flanked and pilastered panels, each carved with a shell and keystone. The windows are punctuated by a deep balustered course between the cornice and eaves.

The south-east elevation facing Mill Lane is gabled and features a modern canopy sheltering a bank entrance with a door to the left and two large windows to the right, with further windows to the centre and left bays of each floor above.

The north-west elevation, also facing Mill Lane, is gabled with a single-storey shop projecting at ground level and featuring two fixed display windows surmounted by a deep fascia and cornice. A slightly lower corniced stone bay contains a further display window in a penultimate bay to the left and a bipartite window angled to the outer left. The recessed first floor has windows in the centre and right bays, whilst the second floor has three regularly disposed windows.

The north-east rear elevation facing Mill Lane displays a variety of elements to its regularly-fenestrated surface, including piended dormerheads at second-floor level. Stepped boundary walls abut the outer angles, incorporating piended single-storey outhouses, some partially converted to retail units, and forming a small courtyard.

Shop interiors are mostly modern, with the exception of the jewellers shop which retains its original boarded timber walls and ceiling.

Windows throughout are fitted with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates. Chimney stacks are coped ashlar with a full complement of polygonal cans, whilst the ashlar-coped skews feature moulded skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and period fixings complete the detailing.