General Store, Tarbet

This is an early 19th century building comprising a two-storey house and attached, single-storey former outbuildings, now used as a post office and shop. The building is located in Tarbet and is known as Lochview and Post Office.

The main house is rectangular in plan and has three bays. It is constructed of painted rubble with painted ashlar margins and dressings, with prominent quoin strips, a base course, eaves band and advanced eaves. On the south elevation, a pair of doors are centrally placed; the left-hand door is a two-leaf boarded door while the right-hand door is a modern uPVC door. Broad windows flank the doors. The left window is a four-pane sash and case window, and the right window is plate glass with a top-hung upper pane. At the first floor, windows are symmetrically disposed under the eaves, with a twelve-pane sash and case window in the centre, an eight-pane sash and case to the right, and a plate glass window with a top-hung upper pane to the left.

Attached to the left are L-plan former outbuildings. A two-bay link block connects the house to the outbuildings, containing a modern uPVC door and a four-pane sash and case window. To the right of the link block is a rectangular, gabled block with a door and a canted window, and modern multi-paned windows.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, with twelve-pane, eight-pane, and four-pane arrangements, with some plate glass top-hung upper panes and modern multi-paned windows. The house has a grey and purple piended roof with lead flashings and red sandstone corniced wallhead stacks with octagonal cans. The outbuildings have a grey slate roof with lead flashings.

The interior was not inspected in 1992.

The property is located within Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. References to the building can be found in F A Walker and F Sinclair’s North Clyde Estuary (1992), page 56.