Bruce Of Auchenbowie's House, 39 St John Street, Stirling is a Grade A listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Tenement.
Bruce Of Auchenbowie's House, 39 St John Street, Stirling
- WRENN ID
- gentle-glass-flax
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1965
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- Bruce Of Auchenbowie's House, 39 St John Street, Stirling, FK8 1EA
- OS grid reference
- NS 792 936
- Coordinates
- 56.1205, -3.94374
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bruce Of Auchenbowie's House is a 16th-century end of terrace tenement located at 39 St John Street in Stirling, with alterations made in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is three stories high and features a five-bay arrangement grouped as 3-1-1, including a stair tower.
On the north elevation facing St John Street, the stair tower is located in the penultimate bay to the right and has an entrance on the west side along with four small staggered windows. In the center, there is a small cellar door at ground level with two windows above it. The penultimate bay to the left contains a low door and two windows above, while the outer left bay has one window and two windows above. The outer right bay features a low door in the re-entrant angle formed with the stair tower and two windows above, with the first-floor window having unpainted margins.
The building has timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing, while the stair tower and ground level have four-and-six-pane windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are stacks on each gable with cans. The east gable is adorned with four large crowsteps and weathered coping stones, while the west gable is finished with a plain cope and a moulded roll skewputt. There is also a canted slate-hung, piend-roofed dormer.
The interior features a vaulted basement, although it was not seen during the 1997 inspection.
Local climate
Bruce Of Auchenbowie's House, 39 St John Street, Stirling sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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