Salutation Hotel, 34-36 South Street, Perth

Circa 1810 incorporating earlier fabric and later alterations - see Notes. 2-, 3- and 4-storey painted ashlar hotel comprising principal section to centre dominated by large Ionic Venetian window; 3-bay 18th century tenement to right linked by continuous balustraded parapet; 6-bay, former tenement with wallhead nepus gable to centre incorporated to left with off-centre pend to ground; upper floors of 4-bay tenement to far left also incorporated. Enclosed courtyard to centre rear.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Central section: pilasters divide bays to at ground floor. Venetian style window with Ionic-columned mullions and jambs (flanked by rectangular-headed niches with polychrome Black Watch figures) surmounted by large round-arched fanlight flanked by roundel panels. Balustraded parapet with central panel and guttae decoration. Parapet continues to 18th century tenement block to right (partly remodelled mid 19th century). 3-bay, 4-storey smooth rendered with lugged architraves and consoles to windows; pilastered and corniced doorpiece to left of centre.

INTERIOR: fine vaulted ceiling to 1st floor restaurant; moulded panels and decorative Adam style garland frieze over paired door entrance with margin lights. Stone fireplace dated 1699 to 'Stewart Room'. Timber Ionic columned and moulded consoled ornament to entrance and ground floor bar. Remains of earliers kilns to basement. Courtyard to rear with stone dated 1619 bearing arms of the Earl of Moray.

Variety of multi-pane glazing patterns to timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Brick stacks.