5 Craiguchty Terrace, Aberfoyle

Craiguchty Terrace is a group of six houses built around 1895 in Aberfoyle. Designed by James Miller, the terrace is an example of the English Arts and Crafts style, constructed using red sandstone for the ground floor, with upper floors and roof covered in red Rosemary tiles. The design features numerous tall chimney stacks and half-timbered gables, adding to its distinct character. Some of the houses have been subdivided into two flats, and the terrace sits on rising ground, set back from the north side of the street and surrounded by gardens, making a significant contribution to the streetscape of Aberfoyle.

The front, or north, elevation is almost symmetrical and includes coupled doorways flanked by canted bays on the ground floor. The first floor features large, jettied half-timbered gables above the bays located on the far left and two far right bays. The central houses have smaller, flush-faced half-timbered gabled dormers breaking the eaves above the canted bays, each with a horizontal window set below the eaves. A shared, horizontal, flat-headed dormer projects from the roof for every two houses.

The rear, or north, elevation incorporates single-storey, square kitchen extensions shared by pairs of houses. These extensions have flat roofs to provide access from French windows on the first floor, with timber stairs leading down to the back gardens.

Interiors of the assessed houses retain much of the original joinery and plasterwork. Number 1 includes a timber and leaded glazed screen and inner door, timber-panelled wainscot, and an original chimney piece in the rear ground floor room. Number 3 features a pulvinated timber chimney piece with a mantel mirror and a timber stair with turned balusters in the rear ground floor room. Geometric tiles are found on the floors of most vestibules.

The front elevations use bullfaced red sandstone for the ground floor and side elevations, while the upper floor and roof feature red clay tiles. The rear of the buildings use roughly coursed whin rubble with red sandstone dressings and margins. The front doors are timber-panelled and glazed with crown glass, and the windows are multi-paned casement windows. The roof is piended, with overhanging eaves and Rosemary tiles. Chimneys are constructed from bullfaced sandstone with red clay circular cans, with six wallhead stacks at the rear, five along the ridge, and an asymmetrical end stack to each side elevation.

At the top of the rear gardens, each pair of houses shares a small, rectangular brick outhouse with a pitched slated roof.