1 Bank Street, Stirling

John Allan, 1890. 4-storey, 2-bay, old English style corner tenement, incorporating shop at ground, on site falling to N and E. Welsh urban brick work with polychromatic banding at 1st and 2nd floors, half- timbered gable, painted render at ground.

N (BAKER STREET) ELEVATION: 3 bays at ground. recessed entrance to centre flanked by 2 19th century shop windows. 2 segmental-arched windows to 1st floor, armorial plaque (see notes) at centre. 4-light canted oriel at 2nd floor to centre. Stone-mullioned bipartites to right and left at jettied and gabled 3rd floor.

W (BANK STREET) ELEVATION: paired entrance on higher ground to outer right, frieze and cornice above flanked by panelled colonnettes on consoles. Shop frieze continuous from N elevation at 1st floor. 2-storey, half-timbered shallowly projecting oriel to right above. Small window to centre, window to left at 1st and 2nd floor, small window to right of centre at 3rd floor. Half-timbering to 3rd floor and to gablehead jettied out above.

S ELEVATION: lower floors obscured by adjoining building, single window to right in chimney gable breaking eaves.

Windows predominantly timber casement with sash and case, graded grey slates, terracotta cresting to ridge, brick gable end stacks with raised banding.