3 The Steadings, Church Road, Arrochar

Dated 1774 and 1776, with more recent reconstruction and alterations, 3 The Steadings is a former steading of a U-plan layout, now converted into residential housing. The building is constructed of rubble, with a harl and cement harl pointing finish, ashlar margins, and dressings, and reconstituted stone margins.

The north-east range, the principal courtyard elevation, is a taller, seven-bay section. It features moulded cornices over the outer doors, with modern boarded doors and windows, and alternating modern rooflights. The south-west elevation has an irregular arrangement of openings, including one door and two loft windows beneath the eaves. The returns include a tall gable with round-headed cart arches at the centre, later filled in as windows, a narrow round-headed window in the gablehead, and an apex pedestal with a ball finial above a 1774 datestone. A gable on the south-east elevation bears a 1776 datestone.

The north-west range, facing Church Road, is four bays in a near-symmetrical arrangement, with four large, slate-hung dormers symmetrically placed. The courtyard elevation of this range has six bays arranged as a three-bay house, with a central door, flanked by windows, and two symmetrically disposed dormers. A gable with a round-headed window is located on the outer left. The south-east range's courtyard elevation has five bays with two symmetrically disposed slate-hung dormers. A four-bay rear range is present, featuring a gable with a round-headed window on the extreme right.

The building now features modern plate glass windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with modern rooflights. Ashlar coping details the skews and skewputts, and tall, coped apex stacks and ridge stacks are present. The former steading originally served Inverioch/Arrochar House, now the Claymore Hotel (listed separately).