27-29 High Street With Vaulted Basement, Dunblane

27-29 High Street, Dunblane, is a building dated 1897 that incorporates foundations from the 17th century. It is two storeys high on the High Street side and three storeys at the rear, with a rectangular plan and a vaulted basement. The exterior is made of squared and tooled sandstone.

The east (principal) elevation features a three-bay timber and plate glass shop front at ground level with a recessed entrance. Above the entrance is a broad signage fascia, and to the outer right is a timber panelled door with a fanlight, flanked by narrow pilasters that terminate in large fluted consoles on both sides. The upper storey has two wallhead dormers that break the eaves, with barge boarded gables and stone mullioned bipartite windows. The building also includes plate glass, timber frame, and sash and case windows. A cast-iron bracket is located at the centre over a date stone inscribed with 'AC [?] 1897', and there is a bracket street light on the outer right wallhead. The gable ends are obscured by adjacent buildings, and the roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The west (rear) elevation presents a three-storey tenement appearance with irregular fenestration, situated on a steeply sloping site that includes a vaulted rubble basement or foundations. Inside, No 27 features an open-plan shop with a floating ceiling, while the tenement at No 29 was not seen in 2001. The basement, which dates to the mid-17th century, contains a barrel-vaulted chamber with rubble walls approximately 1 metre thick, part of an earlier building or range of buildings on the same site. The west wall of the basement has a small chamfered window with a metal grille.