Photograph Scotland And The Post Office, Liz Macgregor's, Basil's, Trossachs Gate, Hbos, The Bank House, Main Street And Trossachs Road, Aberfoyle

This L-plan tenement was built around 1886 and occupies a prominent corner site at the western end of Aberfoyle Main Street. The building comprises a bank and shops on the ground floor with two flats above on the first floor. It is one of very few surviving 19th-century buildings on the Main Street and makes a strong positive contribution to the character of the streetscape.

The building is constructed of squared snecked whin rubble with red sandstone margins and quoins, with harled gables that originally featured half-timbering detail. The pitched roofs are covered with graded slates and finished with plain bargeboards. Most windows are timber sash and case with single pane sashes, though four windows on the south elevation have 6-pane upper sashes.

The most distinctive feature is the multi-gabled roofline with a canted south-west corner. Both the south-west and south-east corners have turret roofs topped by weathervanes. At these corners are stout asymmetrical wall head stacks with canted corner bays featuring hexagonal roofs.

The south elevation facing Main Street is near symmetrical. The ground floor comprises a double-width shop-front to the left (a single original unit), a central door providing access to Trossachs Gate, and a double shop-front to the right (two original units). To the far left is a double window lighting the bank unit, which is accessed by a door on the south-west corner. All shop-fronts retain their original stallrisers and glazing patterns with diamond designs to the upper sections. The fanlight above the Trossachs Gate door also features this pattern. The timber fascias are shaped and dentilled, and the left shop retains its original two-leaf doors. The first floor has two central gables, each with tripartite mullioned and transomed windows, flanked by smaller double windows on either side.

The south-west corner features the bank entrance, a two-leaf timber panelled door with a gabled timber porch canopy. The three-bay west elevation has a series of three double windows to the ground floor, with a timber panelled door under a gabled timber porch canopy at the far left providing access to The Bank House. The first floor has a gabled bay to the right with a double window and a single window to the left.

The rear (north-facing) elevation is relatively plain on its east side, with a gabled bay to the far left. However, the west side is visible to travellers on the Trossachs Road and features a large canted projection from the gable of the west wing, which forms part of The Bank House. This projection contains a laundry and coal cellar at ground floor with mid-level accommodation on the upper floor.

The Bank House retains most of its original joinery and plasterwork. Wide stairs lead to first-floor accommodation, and the window at the head of the stairs and a triple mullioned window to the south both have good painted glass with floral and bird subjects and coloured quarries. The south-west public room has a bracketed chimneypiece in the corner with a tall shelved display mantel above.

In Trossachs Gate, a south-facing public room retains painted glass with coloured quarries. Access to the interior was not obtained during the 2005 resurvey of the remainder of the building.

The HBOS unit was recently refitted in 2005, though some original features are likely to survive behind the new fittings. The Post Office features timber-boarded walls and a cavetto cornice.

The building retains many original features including all the original shop-fronts and some good painted glass to the first floor, making it a particularly valuable survivor on the Main Street.