38 Main Street (Formerly The Eagle Hotel)

The building at 38 Main Street, formerly The Eagle Hotel, is an early 20th-century landmark occupying a prominent corner location at the junction of Main Street and Bridge Street in Callander. Constructed as a hotel, its materials and Queen Anne/Old English style distinguish it from other buildings in the area.

The building is rectangular in plan and has a basement and three storeys, built on a corner site. The principal north-west and north-east elevations are decorated, while the other two elevations are simpler in appearance. The main north-west elevation faces Main Street toward the former railway station. A ground-floor outshot has been filled in to create shop display space. The first floor features segmentally headed window openings, with an advanced canted window to the far left supporting a larger projecting gabled bay at the second floor.

The north-east elevation faces across Main Street and features a later shop front centrally placed. A doorway to the left provides access to a hallway and staircase leading to the first and second floors. The right-hand corner is chamfered on the ground floor, with the shop doorway set on the angle; the stop chamfer above the doorway is moulded. Windows on the first and second floors are arranged asymmetrically. A mullioned and transomed segmentally headed window is located on the first floor, with a smaller segmentally headed window to the far left. A bipartite window is centrally placed below a slightly advanced gable at the second floor.

The south-east elevation is largely blank, with only a few randomly placed window openings.

The basement and ground floor are constructed of simulated painted channelled ashlar with a string course. A simple timber doorpiece with a fanlight is located to the left of the north-east entrance, which features a pair of six-panel timber outer doors and a timber-panelled and glazed inner door, beneath a modern timber canopy. A modern door provides access to the shop.

The first floor is faced with red brick on the principal north-east and north-west elevations, with the timber canted window supported by exposed timber brackets and a dentilled cornice, and a string course. The second floor is roughcast with painted half-timbering on the north-east and north-west elevations, with a cill course to the projecting bay. Roughcast is used on the entire south-west and south-east elevations.

Much of the original varied window glazing remains, predominantly four-pane timber sash and case windows to the basement, ground, and first floors. Timber casement windows are present in the canted window, and on the transomed and mullioned window to the first floor. The second floor has a two-pane over six-pane timber sash and case window.

The grey slate roof is pitched and visible from the south-west and south-east, with a row of slightly overhanging gables arranged towards the north-east and north-west, featuring simple timber bargeboards. Rendered gable apex stacks with tapered clay cans are found on the north-east and south-west sides. Cast iron rainwater goods are fitted.

Access to the interior was not possible at the time of resurvey in 2004.