Johnstone Arms Hotel, 48 Stirling Street, Alva

The Johnstone Arms Hotel, located at 48 Stirling Street in Alva, is an 18th-century building that was remodeled around 1840, with later additions of various dates at the rear. This two-storey and attic hotel features three broadly spaced bays and is set back from the main road. The front is constructed of whitewashed coursed rough ashlar with contrasting chamfered margins and a base course, while the gables are harled. The windows are plate glass sash and case, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ashlar skews with console brackets, coped skewputts, and coped end stacks.

On the north elevation, there is a central ashlar tripartite doorpiece with a cornice and blocking course, leading to a panelled two-leaf outer door topped by a three-pane rectangular fanlight. To the right of the door is a window, and there is an unfortunate modern boarded timber addition to the left. The first floor has three windows, with painted timber signs positioned between them. There is a single early 19th-century piended, canted attic dormer on the right with original glazing.

Inside, the stair and some plasterwork on the first floor remain intact. The rear of the building has additions that create a solid mass; there is a two-storey early 19th-century gabled southwest wing facing Brook Street, which has four original windows and one small window between the first and second at ground floor. The upper floor of the southern two bays is later and blind. There is also a later 19th-century piended wing at the center and a further late 19th or early 20th-century piended block at the southeast, which is higher and incorporates a large timber panelled function room on the first floor. The interior of this room features grained vertical and diagonal boarding with fluted pilasters, fire surrounds with pulvinated friezes, broken pedimented doorcases, and an open timber roof with tie bars and skylights. Additional lean-to structures form a service court.