Publication Account

Date 1978

Event ID 1017701

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Located near Cowane's Hospital, the townhouse of the Bruces of Auchenbowie is the most important surviving domestic building in St. John Street. The house itself was probably built in the sixteenth century although it has been considerably altered both internally and externally, so much so that it is difficult to assign a precise date to it. There remains only a stretch of rubble wall traditionally known as the King's Stables. The building, possibly of seventeenth century date, is located on the south side of King's Stables Lane above its junction with St. Mary's Wynd (RCAHM, 1963, 300).

Information from Scottish Burgh Survey, ‘Historic Stirling: The Archaeological Implications of Development’, (1978).