Wellwood Hotel, West Moulin Road, Pitlochry

Wellwood Hotel, West Moulin Road, Pitlochry

This large Victorian house dates from 1881 and was extended in the 1950s. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay building constructed in squared rubble with dressed quoins and margins. The principal architectural features include a moulded cornice, shouldered door with ropework moulding, round-headed windows to the entrance tower, ropework-moulded dividing courses, corbels, stone transoms and mullions, and chamfered arrises.

The south elevation, which is the principal front, features a projecting gable to the left of centre with a slightly advanced canted 4-light window at ground level corbelled to the first floor, above which is a bipartite window with flanking canted angles further corbelled to the gable head with a moulded datestone. The centre and right bays each contain a single window to the ground floor and a first floor window that breaks the eaves into a dormerhead.

The east elevation forms the entrance front and comprises four bays with a slightly set-back extension to the outer right. An advanced, 3-stage square entrance tower with pyramidal roof and cast-iron weathervane finial projects in a bay to the left of centre. Each stage of the tower has a single window, with the third stage round-headed and breaking the eaves into a finialled dormerhead topped with a small roundel on the tympanum and a decorative cast-iron finial. To the left of the tower is a return featuring a vertically-panelled timber door with plate glass fanlight to the first stage, above which is a ropework dividing course incorporating a blind panel. A window to the second stage and round-headed window to the third stage follow. A set-back gable to the outer left contains a blinded window to each floor. The bays to the right of centre each have a bipartite window to the ground floor and a window with a pedimented dormerhead breaking the eaves to the first floor, with a later small bipartite dormer window above. The elevation continues in a sympathetic modern extension.

The west elevation includes a bay to the right of centre with a basement window and a 4-light transomed stair window above. A gabled bay to the outer right contains a square-headed fixed window at ground level (appearing as round-headed inside) and a tiny window to the left at first floor level. A bay to the left of centre features a bipartite window at ground floor and a dormerheaded window above. Two lower regularly-fenestrated bays to the outer left have a timber panelled door and a dormerheaded window breaking the eaves at first floor level.

The windows throughout are fitted with 2-pane upper over plate glass lower timber sash and case frames with plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates. Coped ashlar chimney stacks with cans are present, along with cast-iron downpipes and rainwater hoppers. The eaves are overhanging with plain bargeboarding.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme to the principal ground floor rooms. The first floor was not inspected in 2000. The ground floor features decorative plasterwork cornices and ceiling roses, and timber shutters are present. The hall floor is tessellated, with a screen door fitted with etched glass to flanking lights and fanlights. The ground floor rooms to the south are divided by a broad segmental arch with sliding timber doors. The room to the west has a keystoned marble fireplace beneath a round-headed window with panelled soffits and flanking round-headed niches. The room to the east has a keystoned marble fireplace and flanking niches with painted plasterwork-panelled soffits and roundels with diminutive masks. A timber-balustered staircase with coloured margins ascends beside a transomed window.

The boundary walls are constructed in coped rubble, with pyramidally-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers at the entrance.