Dunblane, High Street, Sheriff Court House
Court House (19th Century), Sheriff Courthouse (19th Century)
Site Name Dunblane, High Street, Sheriff Court House
Classification Court House (19th Century), Sheriff Courthouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) The Cross
Canmore ID 226381
Site Number NN70SE 135
NGR NN 78223 01306
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/226381
- Council Stirling
- Parish Dunblane And Lecropt
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN70SE 135.00 78223 01306
NN70SE 135.01 78207 01291 Prison
ARCHITECT: William Stirling II, 1842-4.
Photographic Survey (December 1962)
Photographic survey of buildings in Dunblane, Perthshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1962 including Glen Road dovecot, High Street and the Old Prison.
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).
