Warden's House Block, Scottish Churches House, Kirk Street, Dunblane is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 April 1957. House. 4 related planning applications.

Warden's House Block, Scottish Churches House, Kirk Street, Dunblane

WRENN ID
dreaming-mantel-hyssop
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 April 1957
Type
House
Address
Warden's House Block, Scottish Churches House, Kirk Street, Dunblane, FK15 0AL
OS grid reference
NN 782 013
Coordinates
56.18933, -3.96361
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Warden's House Block, part of Scottish Churches House on Kirk Street in Dunblane, dates from the mid to late 18th century, with a mid-19th century addition and refurbishment in 1960. It consists of two pairs of two-storey, three-bay terraced houses, with the southern house being semi-detached. The northern house has a two-storey wing added to the northern bay of the main (west) elevation. Both houses were converted into a residential conference centre, with internal walls removed to create linking passageways during the 1960 refurbishment. The exterior is harled with stone dressings and coped gables on the former cottage to the north.

On the west (principal) elevation, there is regular fenestration with a window in each bay on each floor of the former house on the right. The former cottage on the left is slightly set forward at an angle. The northern wing projects to the left, featuring chamfered arrises at the lower ground. There are two large windows on the ground floor to the right, with the right window being the former entrance, and a window on the first floor. A carved circular stone plaque with a cross motif is located to the left. The entrance is to the right of the right return, with two windows to the left, one of which has been enlarged, and a window in between on the first floor.

The east elevation has a replacement boarded timber door as the entrance to the right of the former house on the left. There is a window on each floor in each bay to the left, with the right window on the ground floor altered. The former cottage to the right has three irregularly disposed windows on each floor, along with a large later 20th-century box dormer on the roof.

The south elevation features a blank gable end. The principal (west) elevation mainly has multi-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has two coped gablehead stacks on the former cottage to the north, one at the southern end and one on the later wing.

Inside, the building has been modernised with a connecting passageway inserted running north to south. A fireplace lintel dated 1741 was reportedly uncovered during the refurbishment in one of the former houses.

Local climate

Warden's House Block, Scottish Churches House, Kirk 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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