Stables, Caledonian Bank, Main Street, Lochcarron

The Caledonian Bank, located on Main Street in Lochcarron, was constructed in the 1870s. It is a two-storey, three-bay banking house built with snecked squared red (Torridonian) sandstone rubble on the principal elevation, random rubble to the sides and rear, and red sandstone ashlar dressings. Distinctive features include droved ashlar quoins, string and cill courses on the south and east sides, and stop-chamfered openings.

The principal south elevation features a slightly projecting bay with a full-height canted window incorporating three lights. The central entrance has a timber panel door set within a moulded doorway with Gothic detailing, topped by an entablature featuring dentils, quatrefoils, and ball finial capped consoles that function as part of the string and cill courses. A tripartite window is positioned to the right at ground floor level, with modern bank signage (installed in 2003) above. A central dormer with a round-headed window at first floor level breaks the eaves, and bipartite round-headed windows are located within the right-hand bay. A recessed, flat-roofed masonry porch with a wide, hoodmoulded doorway, moulded parapet, and stone finial sits on the right.

The east elevation displays a half-piended gable end, a central flat-roofed stone porch, and a hoodmoulded window. Flanking windows are present on both the ground and first floors. A single-storey, lean-to service wing of random rubble is slightly recessed to the right.

The rear (north) elevation is asymmetrical, with a piended gable on the right. A full-width, single-storey, lean-to service extension extends across the rear, with a central glazed and timber door, two windows to the left, and one window to the right. Three first-floor windows are centrally placed.

The western elevation includes a pitched bay on the right, a later 20th-century piended conservatory in the centre, and flanking ground and first-floor windows. A single-storey, lean-to service wing of random rubble subtly recesses to the left, with a single window.

The building features timber sash and case windows with plate glass. The roof is half-piended with piended dormers, a single-pitched bay on the west side, corniced ashlar stacks (one to the ridge, one to the east gable), octagonal clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods adorned with stylised Gothic decoration.

The interior retains its original layout. The banking room and the ground-floor public rooms of the former private residence boast highly decorative cornices. A front vestibule with encaustic tiles leads to a glazed and timber door with side lights, and a central scale and platt staircase features a mahogany handrail and decorative cast-iron balusters. Original doors are found throughout, although most original fireplaces have been removed.

Adjacent to the bank are former stables, now used as a garage, built into the eastern boundary wall. These are a single storey, four-bay structure with a slated half-piended roof. The west elevation originally had two two-leaf timber boarded doors, later replaced with windows. The south elevation has large two-leaf timber boarded doors.

Boundary walls constructed of coped squared rubble run along the south side and east side, with a low wall and cast iron railings featuring floriate finials and five square-plan gatepiers with trefoil carved gablet caps.