134 Atholl Road, Pitlochry

This is a late 19th-century terrace of shops and a hotel, located on Atholl Road in Pitlochry. The building comprises two storeys and an attic, extending for ten bays and featuring decorative bargeboarding and a distinctive three-stage corner tower with a conical roof. The exterior is constructed of squared rubble masonry with ashlar dressings, featuring stop-chamfered arrises and a corbel. A full-width, modern canopy (dating from the late 20th century) is supported by ironwork columns.

The southwest elevation, which fronts Atholl Road, is divided into sections. Nos. 128 and 130 feature a traditional shop with an inset central door, a plate-glass fanlight, and flanking display windows supported by slender cast-iron columns with small capitals. Above, a broad first-floor bay holds a slated, canted tripartite window with panelled aprons, leading up to a small, canted attic window also with an apron and beneath a jerkinhead roof. A shouldered wallhead stack is positioned centrally, partially obscuring a later flat-roofed dormer window.

Nos. 132 and 134 have a slightly in-canted shop at ground level with altered displays. The first floor features two finialled dormerheaded windows towards the right, a jerkinheaded bay with a small bipartite window and a projecting rectangular clock, and a central dormer window.

The Craigower Hotel, occupying Nos. 136 and 138, presents five irregular bays at ground level with a deep-set six-panelled door, a plate glass fanlight, decorative cast-iron braces, and a modern canopy. There are three closely set bipartite windows to the right and a large display window to the outer left, also with decorative braces. The first floor has three bays, with a broad, canted tripartite window in a jerkinheaded bay to the right, a small gabled window with a single window to the left, and a dormer window to the outer right.

The south-west corner tower has three stages. The first stage has a deep-set panelled two-leaf timber door and decorative cast-iron braces. The second stage is corbelled and features a corniced, wide-centre tripartite window. The third stage displays the word “HOTEL” in plain lettering below a six-light window and a slated roof.

The Birnam Place elevation features two windows to each floor, with the right-hand ground-floor window being a fixed display window with a leaded coloured top light. The upper windows on this elevation are blinded and feature painted murals.

Most windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass glazing. The roofs are covered in grey slates. The building incorporates coped ashlar stacks with cans, cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings, and all jerkinheads and dormer gablets are adorned with pendant finials and decorative bargeboarding.