Dunblane, High Street, St Blane's House
House (18th Century), School (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunblane, High Street, St Blane's House
Classification House (18th Century), School (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) St Blane's Rood House, Former Boarding School
Canmore ID 226312
Site Number NN70SE 126
NGR NN 78289 01251
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/226312
- Council Stirling
- Parish Dunblane And Lecropt
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
Publication Account (1997)
The Sheriff Court House was constructed in neo-Tudor manner on an irregular frontage by William Stirling in 1844; it was altered and extended in 1869 and again in 1886. Other buildings sharing the upper High Street are houses of the late eighteenth century. St Blane's Church was built on the corner with Sinclair's Street in 1854 as a replacement for the first United Free Church, built on the opposite side of the street in 1843 and subsequently used as a school, public meeting room and library. St Blane's House, which stands on a natural eminence overlooking the bend in the High Street, dates from the eighteenth or early nineteenth century, and probably stood in isolation when first built (see p 57).
Information from ‘Historic Dunblane: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).
