Description

Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan 'cottage orne' style villa located down lane on W side of Princes Street opposite St John the Baptist Episcopal Church. Stugged ashlar with raised cills. Base course. PRINCIPAL (SOUTH) ELEVATION: recessed porch to centre with paired octagonal proto-doric columns. Timber panelled door flanked by scrolled pilasters and margin lights; round-arched niches to porch walls; bipartite window above. To right, semi-octagonal bay with windows to each face; band course dividing floors; projecting timber eaves cornice. To left, slightly advanced gable to left with bipartite windows.

Grey slate. End stacks with clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Low, front garden boundary walls with wrought iron gate to centre; coped ashlar gatepiers and scrolled wrought iron lamp holder over.

Statement of Interest

No 43 Princes Street is a good and substantially intact example of a detached cottage villa in an urban setting. Its simple 'cottage orne' form, with its associated notions of a rustic retreat, is suited to its secluded location. The octagonal-columned porch and scrolled pilasters are emphasised by the paired-back detailing elsewhere, adding to its interest. No 43 was an early addition to the 19th century grid-iron plan laid out for Perth's Southside. It is not present on John Wood's map of 1823.

List description updated at resurvey (2009).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645291

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)