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Summary

Description

David Smart, circa 1895. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay, Victorian Renaissance tenement with shops to ground. Red sandstone ashlar. Base course, cornice to ground, band course, overhanging dentilled cornice, cornice to attic storey and blocking course. Part-fluted Ionic pilasters rising through 1st and 2nd storeys. Windows to 1st storey set within Corinthian pedimented and segmental-arched aedicules. Raised, moulded architraves to 2nd storey windows. Some bipartite and tripartite windows

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: off-centre close entrance with 6-panel timber entrance door, segmental-arched fanlight above and advanced, consoled pediment above. To left, pair of deep, key-stoned, segmental-arched window openings with similar doorway to far left. To right, shop fronts at Nos 10 & 12: each symmetrical with central recessed doorways and encaustic tiled entrances and part-glazed inner doors; metal gates at No 10. Tall display windows with slender cast-iron columns and narrow clerestories. Stallrisers; those to No 12 with prismatic glass. (see Notes).

Predominantly plate-glass timber sash and case windows with horns to upper floors, plate glass to ground. Coped gable and ridge stacks.

Statement of Special Interest

This is a well-detailed tenement which adds significantly to the streetscape of this part of Perth and which has two, rare surviving, little-altered shop fronts.

Kinnoull Street was laid out in around 1823, but this section was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century with fine, well-detailed Victorian buildings such as this which reflected the growing wealth and confidence of Perth at the time.

The shop front at No 12 was designed by David Smart in 1899 and the stallrisers contain prismatic glass. This was widely adopted for use in stallrisers as a way to lighten basement areas of shops before the widespread use of electric light. Their survival is unusual.

David Smart (1824-1914) was a Perth based architect. In his early years, he worked in the office of David Bryce. David Smart designed a large number of buildings in the centre of Perth at the end of the 19th century.

List description updated as part of Perth Burgh resurvey, 2010.

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