Aytoun Hall, High Street, Auchterarder

The building was commissioned as a community events venue by a group of local businessmen led by a local mill owner, William Hally. The site they chose for the new building was on the north side of the High Street and it was named after a local landowner, Captain Marriott Chadwick Walker Aytoun of the Royal Artillery, who had led an initiative to build an aqueduct which had brought a water supply from Crook Moss Spring, some 3 miles to the west of the town, some 40 years earlier. The building was designed by Charles Sandeman Robertson in the Gothic Revival style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £2,000 and was completed in 1872. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of three…