Crawford Park, Perth Road, Dunblane

This is a substantial, three-bay, square-plan villa built in 1849, constructed in a Jacobean style with multiple gables. It is built of squared and snecked yellow sandstone with ashlar margins. A base course runs around the building, and there is a continuous stringcourse between the ground and first floors, along with a moulded eaves course. Openings have chamfered reveals, and the gables feature scrolled skewputts and kneelers.

The east (principal) elevation has a narrow, gabled bay at the centre with a timber panelled door and a fanlight. The door surround is shoulder-arched and double roll-moulded, with a square panel above displaying an armorial crest. A pointed, segmentally-arched window is set into the gablehead above the first floor. A broad, gabled bay to the left has a two-storey, advanced canted bay at its centre. A stone-mullioned, tripartite window sits on the ground floor, right of the bay, and a single gabled window breaks the eaves above.

The west (rear) elevation is M-gabled, with a narrow bay at the centre, and a pointed, segmentally-arched stair window. A coach house abuts to the left. The north (side) elevation has a blind gabled bay to the left, featuring a blind arrow slit to the gablehead, and a regular fenestration pattern to the right. The south (side) elevation also has regular fenestration, a two-leaf, glazed door to the left, and a plain window to the right, with gables breaking the eaves above the first-floor windows.

The windows are primarily four-pane timber sash and case designs. The roof is covered in grey slates with lead flashing, and cast-iron rainwater goods are present. Multiple, coped, octagonal stacks rise from the roof ridges and gable ends.

The interior features tessellated tiles in the hall. The double-height stairwell and landing have vaulted ceilings with plasterwork diagonal ribbing, clustered vaulting shafts, and crocketed springing. Elaborate foliate plasterwork cornices adorn all of the principal apartments.

A coach house, dating to approximately 1905, is a two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan gabled addition to the rear of the main house. It is built from harled rubble with chamfered yellow sandstone ashlar margins and a cat-slide roof to the west elevation, featuring broad multi-pane windows. A narrow, gabled link connects the coach house to the rear of the main house. A lean-to glass house is situated to the south, and a modern entrance and car-port have been added to the north. The coach house’s interior has been partially divided, with open-plan spaces and dado-height timber panelling. A recessed snug with a high, narrow window sits above an elliptically arched brick fireplace, flanked by fitted benches.