Stirling Arms Hotel, Stirling Road, Dunblane

The Stirling Arms Hotel, located on Stirling Road in Dunblane, was built in 1770 and extended in 1905. This three-storey hotel features an attic and has a rectangular plan with a gabled roof and a distinctive Dutch gable. The front is harled with squared and tooled red sandstone, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubble with yellow sandstone rybats. The building has painted short quoins, a base course, a dividing band between the second and third storeys, and a moulded eaves course. The windows are painted and architraved, with projecting cills.

On the north (principal) elevation, there is a timber-panelled door at the centre flanked by narrow windows, with single windows in the outer bays. The second storey has regular fenestration, while the third storey features a central window flanked by canted oriel windows with piended roofs. The Dutch gable at the centre breaks the eaves and has a wallhead stack at the apex, along with an attic window in the gablehead. A projecting stone balcony with a decorative cast-iron balustrade is present, and above it is a small inset panel bearing a carved and painted Saltire. Canted dormers with piended roofs and cast-iron finials flank the gable.

The south (rear) elevation is two-storey with a basement and has a two-bay advanced bay with a piended roof. There is a single window on the ground floor to the right and a wallhead stack. The returns are three-bay, with an advanced piended bay to the right of the right return that has a door in the centre bay; the left return has regular fenestration and a canted roof dormer on the left.

The east (side) elevation features a timber-panelled door to the right, flanked by pilasters that support a projecting pediment. There is a small window in the centre between the second and third storeys, where a former gablehead is located. The west (side) elevation has slightly irregular fenestration.

The windows are plate glass, timber-framed, sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slates and has lead flashing, with cast-iron rainwater goods and coped gable stacks. The eaves overhang and are barge boarded at the gable ends.

Inside, the hotel has been largely refurbished but retains several original features, including simple plasterwork cornices, a 19th-century Adam-style fireplace in the saloon, and a central staircase with 19th-century cast-iron balusters and a polished timber handrail. There is also a carved panel above a blocked door in the bar that bears an obscured inscription, two coats-of-arms, and the initials IP and ID.

The boundary wall is a low rubble wall that encircles the exposed basement to the southeast.