Dunblane Public Library, High Street, Dunblane is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 2002. Library. 2 related planning applications.
Dunblane Public Library, High Street, Dunblane
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cellar-indigo
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 October 2002
- Type
- Library
- Address
- Dunblane Public Library, High Street, Dunblane, FK15 0ER
- OS grid reference
- NN 783 013
- Coordinates
- 56.18875, -3.96227
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunblane Public Library, located on High Street in Dunblane, was built in 1907. This single-storey, six-bay building has an H-plan layout and features gabled roofs. Originally an institutional building, it now serves as a library. The exterior is constructed from bull-faced yellow sandstone with ashlar margins, and the sides and rear are harled. The gables are coped and stepped.
On the west (principal) elevation, there is a stone-mullioned, bipartite window flanked by single windows to the left. To the right of the central bay, there is a broad segmentally-arched entrance with a moulded reveal, keystone, and moulded cornice above. This entrance has broad two-leaf timber doors and a glazed fanlight. The outer left features a slightly advanced gabled bay with a large, mullioned and transomed, four-centred-arched window in the centre, flanked by tall, corniced windows. The gablehead is inscribed with 'CHURCH HALL'. There is also a single-storey entrance porch to the outer left, with steps leading to a broad two-leaf door and a blocked parapet. On the outer right, there is another slightly advanced gabled bay with a stone-mullioned bipartite window in the centre, a segmentally-arched panel above inscribed 'DUNBLANE INSTITUTE', and single windows flanking it. A date stone from 1907 is located at the gablehead.
The east (rear) elevation features an advanced gabled bay to the left and an advanced bay with a piended roof to the right, with a link wall in between that forms a rear service yard.
The north (side) elevation has three bays with regular fenestration and a small single-storey advanced block to the outer right. The outer left has a single bay with a piended roof that projects.
The south (side) elevation consists of five bays with regular fenestration.
The windows are stylised five-pane timber sash and case, except for the leaded glass in the left bay. The roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the library features good quality plasterwork on the ceilings and a glazed, timber-framed entrance screen leading to the lobby.
Local climate
Dunblane Public Library, High Street, Dunblane sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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