15, 17, 19 Main Street, Callander

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Early 19th century handsome symmetrical 5-bay building with shops arranged to ground floor and flatted apartments to 1st floor and attic. Despite various insensitive alterations such as the addition of unsympathetic roofing material, the loss of original glazing to the 1st floor, and replacement of canted dormer windows by out of character modern rooflights the building is still of good streetscape value and retains some detailing including moulded paired pends.

Principal (SW) elevation with centred corniced doorpiece (missing consoles and part of moulding) giving access to internal vestibule and stair leading to 1st floor and attic flat. Flanking timber shopfront with door to left. To the right of the central principal door is another narrow shopfront converted out of a pre-existing doorway. Paired moulded segmentally headed pend entrances arranged to outer-bays at ground floor, that to right filled in with a shop front, that to left giving access to the rear. 5 symmetrically arranged windows to the 1st floor. The rear (NE) elevation is largely obscured at the ground floor with 2 modern single storey flat roofed extensions.

Materials

Squared, coursed 'pudding stone' with tab detailing to raised sandstone window margins and quoins. Timber panelled door with bipartite fanlight to centre, various timber doors to shops. Modern timber stained sash and case windows to 1st floor. Surviving timber sash and case lying pane window to centre of rear 1st floor, modern to rest. Pitched roof with modern concrete tiles, large modern rooflights to principal elevation, small modern rooflights to rear.