A long-established coaching inn still welcomes guests behind one of Perth’s most distinctive commercial façades.
Quick facts
- Date
- Present composition principally about 1810, incorporating earlier fabric and later alterations
- Architect / designer
- Architect not securely identified in the statutory record
- Type
- Painted-ashlar coaching hotel assembled from several tenements around a monumental Venetian window
- Designation
- Listed building, Category B (LB39646)
- OS grid reference
- NO 11964 23441
Architecture and continuing use
Several buildings are unified by painted ashlar, a balustraded parapet and a commanding Ionic Venetian window above the principal entrance. Varied storey heights reveal the hotel’s growth across adjoining tenements.
Its story
A house on this site had become an inn by 1699. The present frontage largely dates from around 1810, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century work has sustained the building as a hotel.
Why it is included
The Salutation links Perth’s coaching, hospitality and associational history with an active use capable of revealing historic public interiors.
What to notice
- The oversized Ionic Venetian window.
- Changing floor levels across the joined tenements.
- The continuous balustrade used to bind the frontage together.
Reading the surroundings
The hotel is a commercial property. Public hospitality areas depend on opening and booking; bedrooms, functions and service areas remain private.
Timeline
- Present composition principally about 1810, incorporating earlier fabric and later alterations A house on this site had become an inn by 1699.
- Present Operating hotel, restaurant and events venue.
What we know — and what remains uncertain
Competing accounts explain the hotel’s name, and the present building contains fabric from several dates rather than one construction campaign.
Sources & further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland: Salutation Hotel, LB39646 — Designation category, mapped location, construction phases, fabric, authorship and architectural interest.
- Salutation Hotel: history — Current operation, address, ownership, early inn history, refurbishment and acknowledged uncertainties in tradition.
Location
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