Highland House, 7 St Leonards Bank, Perth

Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical villa with distinctive balustraded parapet and 1897, 2-storey and attic central single-bay extension to rear. Ashlar to principal elevation (E), rubble to other elevations with ashlar margins. Eaves cornice, wallhead balustrade. Some gabled attic dormers breaking wallhead to rear.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: PRINCIPAL ELEVATION (E): single-storey, full-length parapetted portico with square-plan Doric columns and with balustraded, advanced central bay with pair of fluted Ionic columns. Central non-traditional timber entrance door with rectangular fanlight above with circular glazing pattern. Flanking tripartite windows with stone mullions and recessed aprons. Moulded raised architraves to upper floor window openings.

Predominantly plate glass and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended roof, grey slates. Wallhead stacks with decorative cans.

INTERIOR: (seen 2009). Original room-plan largely extant. Stone open-well stair with decorative iron balusters and timber handrail. Some decorative cornice and ceiling plasterwork. Part-glazed 2-leaf internal entrance door with fanlight above with circular glazing pattern.

OUTBUILDINGS: single storey outbuildings to SW.

BOUNDARY WALLS: surround building. Coped, rubble walls to N and S, lower wall to E with iron railings and central decorative iron gate. To W, painted rubble wall with 3 square-plan gatepiers with near-flat capstones.