Salutation Hotel, 34-36 South Street, Perth

The Salutation Hotel, located at 34-36 South Street in Perth, dates from around 1810 and includes earlier elements and later alterations. This hotel is a painted ashlar building with two, three, and four storeys. The central section is the most prominent, featuring a large Ionic Venetian window. To the right is a three-bay 18th century tenement, linked by a continuous balustraded parapet. On the left, there is a six-bay former tenement with a wallhead nepus gable at the centre and an off-centre pend at ground level. The upper floors of a four-bay tenement are also incorporated on the far left. At the rear, there is an enclosed courtyard.

The central section has pilasters that divide the bays at the ground floor. The Venetian-style window has Ionic-columned mullions and jambs, flanked by rectangular-headed niches that feature polychrome figures of the Black Watch. Above the window is a large round-arched fanlight, accompanied by roundel panels. The balustraded parapet has a central panel with guttae decoration and continues over to the 18th century tenement block on the right, which was partly remodelled in the mid-19th century. The three-bay, four-storey tenement on the right has smooth rendered walls, lugged architraves, and consoles at the windows, with a pilastered and corniced doorpiece to the left of centre.

Inside, the hotel features a fine vaulted ceiling in the first-floor restaurant, with moulded panels and a decorative Adam style garland frieze above the paired door entrance that has margin lights. There is a stone fireplace dated 1699 in the 'Stewart Room', and the entrance and ground floor bar are adorned with timber Ionic columns and moulded consoled ornamentation. The basement contains remains of earlier kilns. The rear courtyard has a stone dated 1619 that bears the arms of the Earl of Moray.

The hotel has a variety of multi-pane glazing patterns in its timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and brick stacks.