Hillbank House, Kirk Wynd, Blairgowrie

Hillbank House, likely built around 1800, is a two-storey house with a cellar and three bays, featuring classical detailing. The exterior is constructed from snecked rubble with squared rubble quoins, quoin strips, and raised margins. It has a deep base course, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there is a porch in the center bay at ground level, supported by Ionic pilasters and Roman columns in antis. It features a deep-set panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight above, flanked by windows in the adjacent bays, and regular fenestration on the first floor.

The southwest elevation showcases a broad pediment at the wallhead above a large stair window in the center, along with a low piended block that connects to ancillary buildings. The northeast elevation mirrors this pedimented design, with a single window at the center of each floor.

The northwest (rear) elevation includes a two-leaf panelled timber door with a narrow plate glass fanlight beneath a broad cornice, positioned off-centre to the right at ground level. There is a window immediately to the left and additional windows in the flanking bays, with three regularly spaced windows on the first floor.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, while the stair window features coloured leaded glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped and shouldered ashlar stacks with polygonal cans, along with cast-iron downpipes and decorative rainwater hoppers.

Inside, the house has a good decorative scheme that includes decorative plasterwork cornicing, panelled shutters, and brass sash lifts. The fire surrounds are made of marble and timber (some are replacements) with cast-iron inserts and tiled slips. A segmentally-arched two-leaf screen door leads to the stair hall, which features a dog-leg staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and a later coloured glass window.

There are also two rectangular-plan, piended and slated rubble ancillary buildings to the southwest. The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped boundary walls and flat-coped rubble quadrant boundary walls with inset railings. The entrance features circular ironwork gatepiers and decorative ironwork gates.