St Mary's Old Manse, Emma Terrace, Blairgowrie

This is a two-storey, three-bay villa built in 1862. It is located on Emma Terrace in Blairgowrie.

The villa is constructed with a chamfered base course, harled walls with raised quoins, and ashlar margins. The principal, or southeast, elevation has two advanced gabled bays to the left of centre. These bays contain a four-light canted window at ground floor and a single window above. A narrow, slightly projecting gable to the right has a hoodmoulded bipartite window at ground floor and a single window above. A broad recessed bay to the right features a hoodmoulded tripartite window at ground floor, a single window above that breaks through the eaves, a corbelled angle, and a full-width, slated and piended porch supported by a triple arcade of decorative cast-iron piers.

The northeast elevation features a broad gabled bay to the left with a hoodmoulded bipartite window at ground and a single window at first floor. A recessed bay in the centre is similarly fenestrated, with the first-floor window breaking through the eaves. A lower, set-back bay to the right also has a bipartite window at ground and a single window above which breaks through the eaves.

The southwest elevation presents a gabled bay with a stepped chimney breast piercing the eaves into a shouldered gablehead stack and a small window high up to the left. A bipartite window is located to the ground floor left, with a single window above that breaks through the eaves, and there is a blank bay to the right. The northwest, or rear, elevation is asymmetrically-fenestrated, with a variety of elements including gabled bays to either side and a late 20th-century coloured glass window in the recessed centre bay.

The windows are timber sash and case, with four, eight, and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates, with a diamond pattern on the porch and canted window. Coped ashlar stacks feature cans, and the southwest stack has square cans. The eaves overhang deeply, with decorative pierced bargeboarding, timber, and cast-iron finials, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior includes fine decorative plasterwork and cornices, panelled timber shutters, a screen door leading to a stairhall with a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase, and a white marble fireplace on the southwest side at ground floor.

Ancillary buildings include a slated, rubble and ashlar gabled, L-plan building with boarded timber doors to the northwest, and a small rectangular-plan harled building with boarded timber doors and overhanging eaves adjoining the main house at the northwest. Boundary walls are semicircular-coped rubble with ironwork gatepiers and gates.