Glenluss, The Crescent, Dunblane

Glenluss is a single-storey, five-bay house built between 1890 and 1898, located on The Crescent in Dunblane. The house has a rectangular plan and features a gabled porch at the center, with five-light bowed windows on the outer bays. The exterior is made of yellow ashlar sandstone, with raised long and short quoins and stone mullioned windows.

On the west elevation, there is a two-leaf, timber panelled door in the center, topped by a letterbox fanlight. Flanking the door are unusual tapered and pulvinated pilasters with outer sidelights, which rest on stone corbels that support timber struts. The entrance is further enhanced by a projecting gabled timber frame canopy, with timber struts supported by corbels at the center, sides, and eaves, and a foliate pierced fretwork panel at the gablehead. The flanking bays contain tripartite windows, while the outer bays feature advanced five-light bowed windows that end in truncated swept roofs.

The east elevation has irregularly placed fixed-pane double-glazing, with a flat-roofed modern bay on the outer right and a kitchen door on the left return. There is a small lean-to addition on the center left.

The north side elevation has a double bay with regular fenestration, while the south side elevation also has a double bay, featuring a lean-to conservatory on the right and a flat-roofed addition on the left. The windows throughout are made of plate glass in timber frames, with sash and case designs. The roof has alternating bands of green fishscale and grey slates, with lead flashing, and features twinned coped ridge stacks at the center and coped wallhead stacks on the sides.

Inside, the house retains a good original decorative scheme. The central hallway has a rib-vaulted dome with a painted skylight at the apex, and basket-work plaster details with cameo motifs on the sides. Masked corbels support cross beams, and ornate plasterwork cornices adorn the principal rooms. An apartment to the right has been opened up from two smaller rooms, and timber panelled doors are present throughout.

The boundary wall surrounding the property is a low, coped rubble wall that ends in square-plan ashlar columns on plinths topped with pyramidal caps.