37 Arcade, Stirling

27 Arcade in Stirling is a rare shopping arcade with classical details, built between 1879 and 1882 by John McLean, with later conversions and restorations in 1964 and the early 1980s by Honeyman, Jack & Robertson, and further restoration around 2000. The arcade is situated on ground that slopes to the northeast, featuring entrances at King Street, where the former Temperance Hotel is located, and Murray Place, which was the former Douglas Hotel. It also incorporates the shell of the Alhambra Theatre, previously known as the Arcade Theatre.

The building at 32 and 34 King Street, originally the Temperance Hotel, is a late classical structure with four storeys and a mansard attic, constructed of ashlar stone. It has plain slim pilasters flanking a bipartite central bay and a tripartite outer bay with canted bays on the first and second floors. The ground floor features a shop on the left, and the roof is slated with dormers and acroters.

The South-West Arcade Mall, numbered 36-50 and 31-43 Arcade, is a two-storey shopping arcade with four double bays, topped by a glass roof supported by timber transverse arches. The ground floor has been altered.

The Central Square, numbered 26-34 and 15-19 Arcade, consists of three storeys with three broad bays featuring superimposed orders. It has a timber and glass roof braced with wrought iron. The late classical facades display superimposed pilasters, with a more elaborate design on the northeast side at the facade of the former Town Hall, which is now gutted and used as a department store.

The North-East Mall Arcade, numbered 6-24 and 5-19 Arcade, includes single-storey sections at numbers 20-24 and 15-19 with flat ceilings, while numbers 6-16 and 5-13 consist of three double bays similar to those in the South-West Mall Arcade.

The former Douglas Hotel, located at Murray Place and numbers 2, 4 and 1, 3 Arcade, is a free Victorian Renaissance building with four storeys and a mansard attic, three bays wide. It features an arched window above the Arcade entrance and canted bays on the first and second floors. The building was roofless due to a fire in 1971 and underwent repairs from 1975 to 1976.