Old Bank House, Brown Street, Blairgowrie

Old Bank House is a former commercial bank building dating from 1837. It is located on Brown Street, Blairgowrie, and terminates Bank Street. The building is rectangular in plan and three storeys high, constructed in a classical style. The principal elevation is faced with ashlar, featuring architraved windows. The sides and rear are of snecked rubble with Aberdeen bond, ashlar margins, and ashlar quoins. The building has a base course, moulded cill courses, and an eaves cornice. Stone mullions are present.

The south-east (principal) elevation has a Greek Doric doorpiece at the centre of the ground floor, leading to a part-glazed timber door and a small-pane fanlight. There are windows in the flanking bays, beneath scroll-consoled canopies. Each floor above has regular fenestration, with stone-balustraded balconettes to the first floor. A balustraded parapet tops the building, punctuated by four urn finials. A small segmental-headed dormer window is located to the outer left, and a wide rooflight is offset to the left.

The south-west elevation features a panelled timber door with a small-pane fanlight and flanking narrow lights to the centre bay at ground level. A small, offset light is present on the first floor, and a single window is positioned centrally on the second floor.

The north-west (rear) elevation displays a variety of features, including a five-light, rectangular-plan oriel window with cornice and blocking course to the left at first floor level; regular fenestration to the second floor; and a shouldered wallhead stack to the right.

Plate glass glazing is set within timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans are present, along with overhanging eaves featuring plain bargeboarding. Cast-iron downpipes incorporate decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

The interior includes decorative plasterwork, timber fireplaces, and brass door furniture. A hall is floored with tiles.

Ancillary buildings are constructed of slated rubble, featuring piend roofs, boarded timber doors, and timber sash and case windows. A swept-roof (now felted) garden room has a two-leaf centre door with margined lights and flanking transomed tripartites.

Low, saddleback-coped boundary walls are set with decorative ironwork railings. Square-section ashlar gatepiers support ironwork lamp brackets. Semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls complete the enclosure.