Architecture Notes

Event ID 704122

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704122

NS77NW 44 NS 7371 7753.

This stable block, which formerly housed the horses used for towing boats in this section of the canal, is now in ruins.

RCAHMS 1963.

These stables, built to a standard pattern, are located at some distance from the canal. As the canal builders discovered to their cost, when the first block they built sank, the land near the canal was too boggy to support a building of the size required.

The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.

This former stables block, a large building with windows now boarded up, is situated at some distance to the N of the Craigmarloch Bridge. As the first stable block disappeared into the boggy ground, these stables were constructed at a location a distance away from the canal.

H Brown 1997.

The stables are clearly marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1865, sheet xxix) and can also be located on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1990).

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 10 October 2000.