Craigard, Strathview Terrace, Pitlochry

Craigard is a house dating from 1881, situated on Strathview Terrace in Pitlochry. It is a two-storey, five-bay rectangular building with a French Second Empire roof. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked rubble stone with ashlar quoins. The principal, south elevation features an advanced, square-section entrance tower positioned to the right of centre. This tower has a round-headed doorway with voussoirs, nookshafts, and a gabled doorhead supported by moulded pilasters with cavetto cornices. The door itself is a two-leaf panelled timber design with quarter-circle glazed lights above and a narrow light to the left return. A single window sits above the door on the first floor, similarly flanked by nookshafts and an additional light to the left return. A deep banded eaves course extends above, giving way to a decoratively slated Empire roof with elegant cast-iron brattishing and finials. The rightmost bay has a polygonal-roofed, four-light canted window on the ground floor, and a wide bipartite window above, breaking the eaves into a dormerhead. The bays to the left of centre have a four-light window within an advanced gable to the right, and a bipartite window in the gablehead. A slated porch, located in the re-entrant angle to the left, features a two-leaf door with three-pane glazing and a decoratively-astragalled fanlight, along with a bipartite window on each floor. The window to the first floor on the bay to the left breaks the eaves into a piended dormerhead.

The east elevation displays two windows on each floor of a gabled bay to the left, and a bipartite window on each floor of a slightly recessed bay to the right; the first-floor window on the right also breaks the eaves into a dormerhead. The north elevation is irregular, incorporating a small timber-braced porch incorporating a four-part fanlight, and dormerheaded first-floor windows. A door on this side has been blocked. Four windows break the eaves into a piended dormerhead to the right of centre. The west elevation shows a window in the bay to the left of centre, and a broad gabled bay to the right with a narrow light on the extreme right, alongside a later lean-to boiler house.

The interior features decorative plasterwork cornicing and ceiling roses, a carved timber fireplace, and a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase. The porch has a tessellated floor. An etched glass door, likely moved from its original location, is present. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, using plate glass for the south and west elevations, and two-pane glazing with plate glass elsewhere. Grey slates cover the roof. Coped ashlar stacks are topped with cans, and deeply overhanging eaves feature plain bargeboarding. Boundary walls are constructed of coped rubble stone.