Galvelmore House, 5 Galvelmore Street, Crieff

Mid 19th century, raised and altered to rear circa 1900 (see Notes). Tall partly 3-storey (originally 2-storey) with basement, 3-bay gabled house. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar quoin strips and raised margins. Stone mullions.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay at ground with corniced, pilastered and concave-moulded doorcase, deep-set panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight, flat-roofed canted windows with brattishing to flanking bays, regular fenestration to 1st floor and small corbelled cornice to low centre bay above, round-headed bipartite windows in finialled gableheads of outer bays. Corbelled corniced skewputt details.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: extended 2-storey and attic elevation with raised basement projecting. Variety of elements including canted bay altered to incorporate centre projection, stair window and 2 piended canted dormers (see Notes).

N ELEVATION: largely blank gabled bay with lean-to boarded timber porch on ashlar base with multi-pane leaded glazing to 3 windows and similarly glazed upper panels to timber door on left return.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrically-fenestrated gabled elevation with small brick extension to right of centre.

4-, 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with full complement of polygonal cans. Overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding. Decorative cast-iron finials.

INTERIOR: plain cornices and timber fireplaces. Ground floor sitting room with later timber panels and gothic stone fireplace. Timber dog-leg staircase with barley-twist balusters and carved newels, and further 2nd floor staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters.

BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls. Carved panel set into N wall 'This garden wall is erected on the property of Thomas McComish 1812'.