2 Barnton Street, Stirling

20 Barnton Street is a classical tenement building dating from around 1880. It is four stories high and features twelve bays with a near-symmetrical design, including shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed of cream sandstone polished ashlar on Barnton Street and coursed rubble on Maxwell Place. Notable architectural details include a cornice above the shopfronts, a cill course for the first-floor windows, and corniced architraves for the same. There is a deep cornice above the second-floor windows and carved roundels positioned between the three-bay blocks and between the penultimate and outer bay on the right at the third floor. The eaves course and platformed roofs to the third-floor windows break the eaves, complemented by a deep cornice.

On the west elevation facing Barnton Street, the bays are grouped in pairs of six. Central tenement doorways are located at the ground level between the central bays leading to the upper floors. The outer bays feature bipartite windows on all floors above, while the remaining bays have single windows on all floors.

The south elevation, which is the angled bay, has a bowed shop at ground level that forms a balcony with a decorative cast-iron parapet above the first-floor window. Above this, there is a full-height, three-light canted window, with pilasters framing the architraves of the second and third windows, topped by a hexagonal roof.

The east elevation facing Maxwell Place is concave and consists of four stories plus a basement. It features paired windows on the ground floor to the right of the center, bipartite windows on the floors above, and single windows on the ground floor outer right and the first floor above, as well as a single window on the third floor outer left.

The building has plate glass and timber sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof, and fish-scale slating on the roof of the angle bay, with coped wallheads and ridge stacks.