22, 24, 26 Dunkeld Street, Aberfeldy

This is a late 19th century tenement building, with internal alterations made in 1918. It is two storeys and an attic in height, and has eight bays, with shops at ground floor level. The exterior is constructed of squared chlorite-slate rubble, with contrasting polished and stugged ashlar dressings. A cornice runs along the ground floor. Roll-moulded, stop-chamfered arrises are a feature of the design.

The north-west (principal) elevation features shops to the right of centre and to the left of centre at ground floor level. The shop on the right has a recessed, part-glazed entrance door, a plate glass fanlight with a panelled soffit, and flanking display windows with leaded margined top-lights and timber pilasters. To the outer right is a six-panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight and flanking ashlar pilasters, all beneath a corniced frieze. A shop on the left has a mosaic step marked with the monogram ‘McG Ltd’, a recessed two-leaf entrance door, and flanking display windows with canvas awnings, with a further door to the outer left matching the design on the right. Above the shops, the first floor has four windows, giving way to square-section guttering with decorative fixings, and two smaller dormer windows above with decorative braces and bargeboarding. The upper floors mirror the bays to the right, although without the guttering.

The south-east (rear) elevation has a piend-and-platform roof, with a variety of features including a boarded timber door with a two-part fanlight to the left at ground level, a forestair in the centre, and four openings to each floor above.

The north-east elevation displays a gabled bay to the right, with a window to each floor at the outer right, and a margined stair window in the centre. A lower bay to the left has windows to each floor.

The south-west elevation has a gabled form, with windows to the left at ground level, and to the right at first floor and attic levels.

The windows are timber sash and case style, with plate glass glazing. A margined multi-pane leaded glazing pattern is present at ground level on the left and at the top right of the south-west elevation, with the ground floor glazing incorporating a lion motif. The roof is covered in grey slates. Shouldered ashlar stacks are topped with cans. The eaves overhang, with decorative pierced bargeboards and decorative cast-iron finials.

Internally, the shop on the east side (No 22) retains much marble wall lining, while the shop on the west side (No 26) has boarded timber-lined walls and a timber fireplace with a cast-iron grate.