Brackenbrae, Emma Terrace, Blairgowrie

Brackenbrae is a Victorian villa likely dating to around 1874, with minor alterations to the rear completed around 1980. The house is a two-storey, three-bay L-plan building with a piend roof, notable for its fine interior. It is constructed from squared red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a raised base course and eaves cornice. A moulded doorpiece with a cornice and blocking course is present, along with corniced and architraved windows, including a round-headed window featuring stone mullions.

The south-east (principal) elevation is symmetrical. A narrow, gabled bay is centrally positioned, with steps leading to a panelled timber door topped by a plate glass fanlight. A single window sits above the door, featuring a moulded architrave and a cast-iron anthemion finial to the gablehead. Flanking bays each have a corniced canted window at ground level, and a bipartite window at the first floor.

The north-east elevation features a dominant stack in the centre of a gabled bay, with a window at ground level and further windows on each floor to the right.

The north-west (rear) elevation includes a lower wing projecting to the centre and left. A small roundheaded first-floor window is present, along with a prominent shouldered gablehead stack. Modern rooflights are set into the return to the right. A flat-roofed brick extension is located to the outer left, and a lower piended projection with two large French windows is positioned to the left. A single first-floor window sits in the recessed face to the right, and a horizontal rooflight is above the centre.

The south-west elevation incorporates a modern conservatory on the right at ground level, and two windows to the first floor, with a blank gabled centre bay.

The windows are timber sash and case, with four-pane and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates. The stacks are constructed from shouldered and coped squared rubble and have polygonal cans. Deeply overhanging eaves feature bargeboarding and decorative cast-iron cresting to the gableheads of the main house, along with cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers.

The interior retains a fine decorative scheme, including decorative plasterwork cornices, friezes, and centre roses. The doors are architraved and panelled, with panelled shutters. The hall features a mosaic-tiled floor, an alcove with a moulded arch on scroll consoles, and coloured leaded glazing to a part-glazed screen door with a deep plate glass fanlight. The stairhall includes a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase, ball-finialled square-section newel posts, and a triangular cupola. The principal ground floor rooms showcase fine swagged detail to the friezes, with the room on the south-west also featuring a white marble fireplace and a pilastered sideboard recess. The kitchen floor is finished with stone flags. A fine china handbasin is supported by decorative cast-iron supports, with a splashback (using replacement tiles) surmounted by a broken pedimented mirror.

The property is surrounded by low, saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls with inset decorative cast-iron railings and square-section, coped gatepiers, alongside semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.