Manager's House, Granary, Lower Mill Street, Blairgowrie

This is a granary, likely dating from the early 18th century, which has been converted into a restaurant and gallery in the late 20th century. It is a single and two-storey building in an L-shaped layout, with steeply pitched roofs and some altered window openings. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble stone, with some larger squared rubble quoins, and stone and concrete margins.

The two-storey range is rectangular. The east (Lower Mill Street) elevation features a gabled front with a door on the left and a window to the right at ground level. Two large vertically aligned windows are positioned off-centre to the right above. The north (courtyard) elevation has a broad, part-glazed timber door slightly left of centre, with windows in the flanking bays and two smaller windows set back on the first floor. A timber forestair leads to a part-glazed timber door on the first floor, and there are three regularly spaced rooflights above. A single-storey range adjoins the right side.

The south (rear) elevation is largely blank, with a lower building projecting at ground level on the right, painted signs close to the eaves, and a catslide-roofed bay projecting on the left. The single-storey range also adjoins on the left side. The single-storey range has a dominant steeply pitched roof. The east (courtyard) elevation includes a bay to the left of centre with a broad opening featuring a cast-iron lintel over a two-leaf, part-glazed timber door, flanked by screens and a sunburst-astragalled fanlight. A part-glazed timber door is to the outer right. A tall, later range adjoins on the far right, and a tall, slate-hung, timber-pedimented dormer window rises from the wallhead at centre – this appears to be a conversion from a previous door opening. A small modern rooflight is positioned on the outer right.

The north (courtyard) elevation has a boarded timber door on the left, adjoining the two-storey range, and a panelled timber door to the right. The south (rear) elevation includes a fire escape. The west (rear) elevation has four small modern rooflights.

The windows are timber, with multi-pane glazing patterns in the top-opening apertures. Grey slates cover the roof. Some interior fittings remain.

Adjacent to the granary is a single-storey, three-bay, L-plan cottage, likely used as manager’s houses. This cottage is harled and symmetrical on its south (courtyard) elevation, with a part-glazed timber door with a wallhead pediment at centre and bipartite windows in the flanking bays. The east (Lower Mill Street) elevation has a broad gabled bay on the left with a window to the right, slightly set-back bays to the right with a centre door and flanking windows. The west elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated, with a projecting piended bay on the right and a projecting gabled bay on the left. The manager's houses have plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows; some windows on the east elevation have been blocked. Grey slates cover the roof, with coped brick stacks and overhanging eaves.