4 The Steadings, Church Road, Arrochar

The Steadings is a former steading, dating to 1774 and 1776, that has been converted to housing. It is arranged in a U-plan and is located within Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. The construction is of rubble with harl and cement harl pointing, with ashlar margins and dressings, and reconstituted stone margins.

The north-east range, the principal courtyard range, is the tallest and comprises seven bays. It features moulded cornices to the outer doors. It has modern boarded doors and windows, with alternating modern rooflights. The south-west elevation has an irregular arrangement of openings, including one door and two loft windows under the eaves.

Returns feature a tall gable with round-headed cart arches at the centre, now infilled as windows. A narrow round-headed window is situated in the gablehead, and the gable is topped with an apex pedestal and ball finial, along with a 1774 datestone. A gable on the south-east elevation bears a 1776 datestone.

The north-west range, facing Church Road, is four bays and nearly symmetrical, with four large slate-hung dormers symmetrically arranged. The courtyard elevation shows six bays, arranged as a three-bay house with a door at the centre and flanking windows, and two symmetrically disposed dormers. A gable with a round-headed window is located to the outer left.

The south-east range presents a five-bay courtyard elevation with two symmetrically placed slate-hung dormers. A four-bay rear range is present, and a gable with a round-headed window is positioned to the outer right.

Modern plate glass windows are fitted, and the building has a grey slate roof with modern rooflights. Ashlar coping is present to the skews and skewputts, along with tall coped apex stacks and ridge stacks. The steading originally served Inverioch/Arrochar House, which is now the Claymore Hotel (a separate listed building).