Hostel, Dun Aluinn, Alma Avenue, Aberfeldy

Sidney Mitchell & Wilson, dated 1909, extended to rear. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, Queen Anne detailed villa with low 2-storey service wing and small courtyard, good interior detail and terrace walls. Squared and snecked chlorite-slate rubble with contrasting red sandstone ashlar dressings. Part 1st floor cill course, mutuled cornice. Some pedimented and aproned windows. Stone mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with keystoned, corniced and architraved doorpiece surmounted by dated moulded tablet with flanking scrollwork, step up to deep-set further architraved panelled timber door with deep decoratively-astragalled fanlight, adjacent window to right with moulded apron, and 2 windows at 1st floor. Gabled bay to left with square-plan 5-light window at ground giving way to stone balustrade (surmounted by later fire escape) and 2 widely-spaced windows, open pediment above with keystoned glazed oculus in gablehead. Lower bay to outer right with bipartite at ground and 2 windows to 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: ground floor centre and right obscured by flat-roofed extension, canted window to left with stone balustrade. 1st floor with pedimented window in open-pedimented gablehead to right, wide-centre tripartite to centre and single window to left.

N ELEVATION: variety of elements to asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation including panelled timber door with Latin inscription to left and square-plan 5-light window with stone balustrade to centre at ground.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: low piended bay projecting off-centre left with boarded timber doors at ground and small oriel window above, similar door and dormerheaded window on return to left and shaped courtyard wall abutting at right. Asymmetrically-fenestrated M-gable behind and later (raised?) gabled bay to right.

4-pane, 2-pane upper sashes over plate glass lower, and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Cavetto-coped stacks with full complement of cans.

INTERIOR: plain and decorative cornicing; brass sash lifts; carved and moulded timber fire surrounds; panelled shutters; some boarded dadoes. Mosaic-tiled vestibule with screen door and margined glazing; top-lit stair with square timber newels and handrail and decorative ironwork balusters. 1st floor bedroom with timber fire surround, overmantel with inset mirror, cast-iron fire basket and glazed tiles with nursery scenes.

TERRACE WALLS: fine flat-coped decorative terrace walls with low square-plan piers.