1 Melville Terrace, Stirling

1 and 2 Melville Terrace is a pair of two-storey, two-bay, rectangular-plan semi-detached houses dating from the early 19th century, built in coursed, squared rubble with small pinnings and smooth, advanced and droved sandstone margins to door and window surrounds.

The principal east elevation features arched doorways with timber pilasters and decorative glazed fan lights above double storm doors to the centre bays. An ashlar base course and dentilled, bracketed eaves cornice complete this elevation.

An early 19th century single storey gabled former stable, built in large block coursed rubble, is linked to Number 2 by a single storey wall. It features a round window in the gable apex. The roof is covered in small slates with corniced stone gable end stacks and stone skews. Number 1 has a dormer window to front and rear, while the rear elevations are rendered.

The interiors contain curved stone stairs with plain squared iron bannisters and mahogany handrails running from ground floor to second floor. Number 1 retains an early 19th century decorative cornice and ceiling rose to the principal room. Number 2 preserves an early 19th century lobby screen with diamond pane glazing, early 19th century plain classical fire surrounds, and several original six-panel timber doors.

Low coped rubble walls and paired separate gateways with short gatepiers stand to the front east of each house. An early 19th century tall boundary wall built in finely tooled rubble extends around the south, west, and north boundaries of the gardens.

The site is documented in John Wood's Town Plan of Stirling (1820) showing paired stable buildings linked by walls to each side and a large shared garden. By the first edition Ordnance Survey map (1860), the property is shown as two houses with divided gardens. Number 1 was occupied by David Marshall from 1894, a dentist who relocated his practice from Port Street to 1 Melville Terrace around 1887. Number 1 has been used as an office since the later 20th century, while Number 2 remains a domestic dwelling.