Anchorfield, Perth Road, Dunblane

Anchorfield is a house located on Perth Road in Dunblane, dating from the later 18th century with 19th century additions. It is a 2-storey, 5-bay structure in an L-plan, constructed from harled, squared and tooled yellow sandstone, featuring ashlar margins around the windows and projecting cills.

On the south garden elevation, the house has a 3-bay design with a piended roof and slightly irregular window arrangement. There is a timber-panelled door located to the centre right. A full-height, single-storey, 19th century addition is attached to the southwest corner, featuring a half-piended roof and an advanced, canted bay topped with a finialled piended roof and fretwork barge boarding.

The east elevation facing Perth Road is 5-bay with regular fenestration, except for a stone-mullioned bipartite window on the outer left of the ground floor. There is a small single-storey outshot at the second bay from the right.

The north side elevation has a broad, single bay end wall with regular fenestration. The west elevation, which forms the courtyard side of the L-plan, has 4 bays with irregular fenestration. The outer left has a single bay, while the slightly advanced 3-bay block to the right features a door at the centre. The north elevation has 3 bays with irregular fenestration and includes 19th century additions, such as a 2-storey canted bay that abuts the right side of the west elevation. There are also irregular single-storey outshots attached to the return of the south elevation.

The windows throughout the building are timber-framed, small-pane, sash and case windows of various sizes. The roof is covered with grey slates and features lead flashing, while the cast-iron rainwater goods are complemented by coped ridge stacks and wallhead stacks on the south and west sides.

Inside, the house has timber-panelled doors throughout. The elegant 18th century drawing room and dining room overlook the garden and feature semicircular-arched wall niches, decorative plasterwork, and dado panelling. There is also a cobbled cellar that includes a water pump and well.

The boundary wall consists of a high, coped rubble wall along the Ramoyle boundary, which has a segmentally-arched carriage entrance and bows at the street corner junction with Perth Road. A low coped wall runs along the front of the house on Perth Road, while a section of squared sandstone wall with moulded coping is located to the south of the house on Perth Road, featuring a chamfered gateway that reverts to the high, coped rubble wall along the remainder of the garden frontage on Perth Road.