Springbank Carding And Spinning Mill, Dunblane

1851, extended 1888. 2-storey, 12-bay, rectangular-plan, triple-gabled mill building, piended roof with ogee-domed stair tower breaking eaves to SE. 3-storey, 7-bay, rectangular-plan, addition with abutting to W. Red sandstone rubble with yellow ashlar margins. Long and short quoins, blocked architraves and projecting cills to windows.

E BLOCK: 1851; regular fenestration, tall rectangular windows, inscribed, blind semicircular arches, to ground floor, square attic windows to 1st floor. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 7-bay, 5 bays to left obscured by abutting later addition, entrance to 3rd bay from right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 8-bay and 4-bay advanced block to right with exposed basement facing river. Square-plan stair tower with slated, ogee-domed roof breaking eaves to return. N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay, irregular fenestration. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 6-bay, regular fenestration.

W BLOCK: 1888; taller windows to ground. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 7-bay, regular fenestration, modern glazed, timber-framed door to centre. N (REAR) ELEVATION: regular fenestration, advanced, bowed stair tower to centre with arrowslit windows and flanking narrow windows. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: obscured by abutting building. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: regular fenestration.

Modern, 9-pane, timber-framed, tilt-and-turn windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: converted to 29 private flats. Few original features preserved in ground floor flats surveyed 2001.

FORMER SCHOOL HOUSE: 2-storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled. Red sandstone rubble. Grey slates, lead flashing. Regular fenestration to upper storey, irregular to ground with louvered service doors to openings.