Glenluss, The Crescent, Dunblane

1890-8. Single storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan house with gabled porch to centre and 5-light bowed outer bays. Overhanging eves with decorative, detailed fretwork barge boarding. Yellow ashlar sandstone. Raised long and short quoins. Stone mullioned windows.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-leaf, timber panelled door to centre, letterbox fanlight; unusual, flanking, tapered and pulvinated pilasters with outer side lights, terminating in stone corbels supporting timber struts. Projecting gabled, timber frame entrance canopy, timber struts supported by corbels to centre, sides and eaves, foliate pierced fretwork panel to gablehead. Tripartite window to flanking bays. Advanced, 5-light bowed windows to outer bays terminating in truncated swept roofs.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration fixed-pane double-glazing. Flat-roofed advanced modern bay to outer right with kitchen door to left return. Small lean-to addition to centre left.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: double bay; regular fenestration.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: double bay; lean-to conservatory to right, flat-roofed addition to left.

Plate glass, timber frame, sash and case windows. Alternate bands of green fishscale and grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Twinned, coped ridge stacks to centre, coped wallhead stacks to sides.

INTERIOR: good original decorative scheme in place. Rib-vaulted dome to central hallway, painted skylight to apex, basket-work plaster detail to sides with cameo motifs. Masked corbels supporting cross beams. Ornate, plasterwork cornices to principal rooms. Apartment to right knocked through from 2 smaller rooms. Timber panelled doors throughout.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low, coped rubble wall, terminating in square-plan ashlar columns on plinths with pyramidal caps.