Struan House, The Square, Aberfeldy

Dated 1891, Struan House is a three-storey, five-bay by three-bay small tenement situated on a steeply rising corner site in Aberfeldy, originally incorporating a bank and shop at ground level. The building is constructed with painted ashlar to the ground floor, with stucco/render above. Ashlar dressings include channelled piers and architraved surrounds, along with band and cill courses and an eaves cornice. Fluted pilasters divide the bays above the ground floor, and stone mullions are present throughout.

The northwest (principal) elevation features a bay to the outer left at ground level with an inset, part-glazed timber door, a plate glass fanlight, and a mosaic-tiled doorstep. To the right, there’s a single fixed display window, followed by three similar windows. The façade displays ‘BANK OF SCOTLAND’ within a corniced frieze. A single window is centrally placed at both the first and second floors, and flanking gabled bays each have a wide-centre tripartite window on each floor. The second-floor window has a cornice and semicircular scrolled pediment. Keystoned niches are set within the gableheads, each featuring corbelled, fluted pilasters and flanking paterae, a scallop-detailed arch, and further patera detail to the pediment.

The northeast (Old Crieff Road) elevation presents a five-bay arrangement across the ground floor, grouped as three bays and two bays. A panelled timber door, with “STRUAN HOUSE” etched into the plate glass fanlight, is located to the left of centre. A shop window and door are to the left, and two widely-spaced windows are to the right, all under a frieze and cornice. A lower bay to the right has a window to the outer left. The first and second floors each have five windows and dividing pilasters. Windows to the centre and penultimate left at the second floor have semicircular pediments flanking the date '1891', mirroring the gablehead detailing above. Bays to the right are surmounted by tall, shouldered, decoratively-shafted wallhead stacks.

The south (rear and Tulloch Bank) elevation is a four-bay angled façade, grouped as two bays, one bay, and one bay. The ground floor acts as a basement, with a turret-roofed entrance tower centrally positioned. Regular fenestration is found on the first and second floors of bays 1, 2, and 4. A bowed bay is centrally placed, featuring a stair window on the first floor, steps ascending to higher ground with an oversailing platt, a panelled timber door with a deep plate glass fanlight, a turret roof, and an adjacent shouldered wallhead stack to the left.

Plate glass glazing is used in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slates. Corniced and coped rendered stacks have cans, and ashlar-coped skews are topped with ball-finialled skewputts.

The interior features a curved stone staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters, and panelled timber doors. The interior of Tulloch Bank was not inspected in 2001.

The site is enclosed by flat-coped rubble boundary walls with inset railings, square-section ball-finialled ashlar gatepiers, decorative ironwork gates and railings.