6-8 High Street, Dunblane

Circa 1875, 6-8 High Street, Dunblane, is a two-storey, seven-bay, rectangular Jacobethan tenement with shops at ground level, built on falling ground. The building is constructed of squared and snecked, bull-faced red sandstone with yellow ashlar margins, featuring long and short quoins, and an eaves course. The windows are predominantly stone-mullioned and transomed with plain margins, and the gables are shouldered with moulded coping and large, stone, acorn-shaped finials.

The west (principal) elevation features timber and plate glass shop fronts with inset canted doorways at ground level. A broad, continuous, pulvinated fascia is divided and terminated with triglyphs and scrolls, effectively turning the corner to the south. A gabled bay is located to the outer left, and a slightly advanced, canted window rises to a coped parapet, with a projecting moulded panel to the gablehead. The central section is a four-bay symmetrical block, with paired, gabled bipartite windows breaking the eaves in the centre and single windows to the outer bays. A battered wallhead stack is positioned to the right, and a two-bay corner extends to the outer right, featuring a corbelled corner, a single window to the left, and a gabled, bipartite window breaking the eaves to the right.

The north side elevation is largely obscured by an adjoining building. The south side elevation shows three bays and a side entrance flanked by narrow windows at ground level. The southern return of the canted shop entrance is located to the outer left. A double stringcourse runs between the first and second storeys, and a string course extends across the blank second storey, rising to a blind gable breaking the eaves at the centre, with a projecting carved panel to the gablehead.

The east (rear) elevation, situated on rising ground, is a single storey with a courtyard built over the basements of the shops. The walls are rubble with squared and tooled margins around the openings. Steps lead to doorways over a pitched and slated element of the basement roof. It features irregular 12-pane, timber-framed, sash and case windows.

The building has a piended roof covered in grey slates with lead flashing, and cast-iron rainwater goods with basket hoppers. Battered wallhead stacks are present on the west and north elevations, topped with tall, decorative yellow clay cans. A large ridge stack is centrally located. The interiors consist of plain, refurbished shop interiors at ground level. A first-floor lodge and flats were not accessible for inspection in 2001.