Alexandra House, 32 Dunkeld Street, Aberfeldy is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 2002. Shop and tenement. 4 related planning applications.
Alexandra House, 32 Dunkeld Street, Aberfeldy
- WRENN ID
- hidden-porch-oak
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 August 2002
- Type
- Shop and tenement
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alexandra House is a substantial, three-storey, three-bay Baronial shop and tenement dating to 1899, prominently situated on a corner plot in Aberfeldy. The building is constructed of red bull-faced rubble with chlorite-slate rubble and red bull-faced dressings.
The Northwest elevation, facing Dunkeld Street, features a ground-floor shop with two fixed display windows to the left, a central dividing pilaster, two further display windows to the right, and a narrower window on the outer right, which may have been altered from a doorway. A pilaster marks the corner angle, surmounted by a fascia reading 'HAGGARTS' 'TWEED MANUFACTURERS'. Above, tripartite windows punctuate each floor, the second-floor window breaking the eaves into a crowstepped gablehead. To the right, a bay has bipartite windows, and a single window at the first floor is accompanied by a small ironwork sign.
The corner tower, fronting the North elevation, incorporates a bowed bay with two pillars supporting an open porch. A panelled timber entrance door with a deep fanlight is set back, flanked by concave display windows and a fascia displaying the royal coat-of-arms. Bowed tripartite windows are above, topped by a conical-roofed tower with a decorative cast-iron weathervane finial.
The Northeast elevation, along Moness Terrace, is asymmetrically fenestrated, with a ground-floor display window and a first-floor window. To the left of centre a window stands alongside two bipartite windows and a crowstepped dormerhead. A door is positioned on the outer left, with two stair windows above.
The rear (Southeast) elevation has three bays grouped towards the center, with a broad five-part window on the ground floor, bipartites in the center and to the right, and a single window to the left at the first floor. Further bipartites, flanked by single windows (all breaking eaves into crowstepped dormerheads) are present at the second floor, as is a long, single-storey wing projecting to the left.
The Southwest elevation displays a variety of elements including a single-storey wing with three boarded timber doors and letterbox fanlights, and tripartite windows to the first and second floors.
Most windows are timber sash and case, with a 12-pane glazing pattern to the ground floor of the Southeast elevation. Upper sashes have 12 panes over plate glass lower sashes on the Northwest, North and Northeast elevations; the remaining windows have plate glass glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates, and incorporates banded and coped shouldered stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews with beak skewputts, and barley-twist cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
The interior of the shop retains fine original features, including decorative plasterwork, barleytwist cast-iron columns with decorated capitals, small-pane display windows, fitting rooms, a timber-panelled counter, and boarded timber-lined walls.
The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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