Drumsheen, Keay Street, Blairgowrie

Drumsheen is a large Arts and Crafts style villa designed by William Steven in 1906 and completed in 1907. It is situated in Keay Street, Blairgowrie, and possesses a fine interior. The exterior is whitewashed harl, with red-tiled gableheads and contrasting painted margins. The windows are a mix of Venetian and circular styles, with some openings corniced. Mullions and transoms are of stone and timber construction, and multi-pane glazing is used throughout the timber casement windows. Red brick Shavian stacks with decorative cans are present, along with overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

The principal, or northeast, elevation features an advanced gabled bay at the centre, incorporating a polygonal-roofed, canted, 12-light transomed window at ground level and a Venetian window above. A re-entrant angle to the left has a slate-roofed, open timber porch on battered columns with latticed railings and top lights, a panelled timber door, and a decoratively-glazed oculus. A slightly set-back bay to the right has two windows at ground level, a bipartite window abutting the eaves to the right, and a glazed oculus to the left.

The southeast elevation is gabled and includes a transomed rectangular-plan window to the left at ground level and a bipartite window to the outer right. There is a single window to the left and a bipartite window to the right on the first floor, with a small window set into the slated gablehead. The porch, as previously described, is located on the right side.

The southwest elevation has a projecting gabled bay towards the right of the centre, with a tripartite window at ground level. A part-glazed door is on the return to the right, and a single window is on the return to the left. The first floor features a further tripartite window, and glazed oculi are on each return. A set-back bay to the left has an altered French window at ground level and a 6-light transomed window breaking the eaves above.

The northwest elevation provides a variety of features across its asymmetrically-fenestrated façade, including a lower, advanced gable to the left with a door on the return to the right, and a broad gable to the right with a 6-light transomed window at ground level and a small window in the gablehead.

The interior retains a fine original decorative scheme, including architraved panelled doors and a screen door with coloured leaded glazing, leading to a semicircular-arched stairhall. This hall contains a timber-balustered dog-leg staircase with square-section newel posts and a rectangular cupola in a timber compartmented ceiling. The principal ground floor room to the southwest features a compartmented ceiling, a timber fire surround with tiled slips and overmantel, a decoratively-astragalled part-glazed wall cupboard, and a segmental arch to a rectangular-plan window. A similarly-detailed dining room is adjacent, but lacks a fireplace and cupboard. The first-floor bedrooms have timber cornices and shallow vaulting, and a panelled, vaulted bathroom is also present.

The gate, gatepiers, and railings are of timber, with the gatepiers and gate featuring vertical lower rails and latticed tops mirroring the porch detail. A decorative brass plate marked 'DRUMSHEEN' is affixed. Battered timber railings complete the boundary treatment.