Dreadnought Place Including Ancillary Structure And Boundary Walls, Main Street, Killin

Dreadnought Place dates to around 1898 and is a two-storey and attic, four-bay harled tenement situated prominently on Main Street in Killin. It includes a pair of shops on the ground floor and recessed stair towers on the north and south elevations. The building exemplifies a type of tenemental construction that began in Killin in the late 19th century, respecting local architectural character with timber bargeboards and overhanging eaves while incorporating metropolitan late 19th-century details. Notably, the oriel windows in the outer bays and the string courses are unusual for the local area. Where original glazing remains, it contributes significantly to the building’s character. A washhouse originally serving the property remains at the rear. It contributes positively to the streetscape.

The principal (east) elevation displays a symmetrical design, featuring a pair of shops with plate glass windows and recessed entrances. Above the shops, the outer bays have tripartite oriel windows which break the eaves, each topped with a pitched gable. The inner bays contain single-light windows, those to the attic floor also breaking the eaves with pitched gables. String courses visually separate the floors. Recessed stair towers flank the north and south elevations, each with a two-storey and attic structure and featuring four-panel timber entrance doors with three-pane rectangular fanlights above.

A monopitch extension of later date projects from the rear (west) elevation.

The stairwells have a simple, timber-boarded dado. The first-floor flat to the north appears to be the most intact, with timber-boarded dado panelling in the hallway and rear room. There are four-panel timber doors and, in the oriel windowed room, a decorative cornice and tiled chimneypiece. A partially glazed cupboard features an Art Nouveau brass finger plate, and original 12-pane over 2-pane and 9-pane over plate glass sash windows remain.

The building is largely harled with sandstone ashlar dressings, quoins, and shopfronts. The timber bargeboards on the principal elevation and stair towers feature a zigzag motif. Some non-traditional replacement glazing has occurred.

Adjacent to the monopitch extension on the west elevation is a projecting washhouse constructed of corrugated iron, with a slate roof and simple timber-boarded doors. A coped rubble stone wall borders the property to the north, west, and south.