Trossachs Pier, Loch Katrine

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Sited at a steep-sided inlet near the south end of Loch Katrine, the Trossachs Pier comprises a rustic timber covered walkway set on a rubble pier built in the mid to later 19th century. The N end is terminated by a gabled clapboard pavilion which gives access to a separate floating pier set at right angle. Noted both for its architectural curiosity and its part in the significant rise in tourism to the area resulting from the popularity of locally set 19th century Romantic Literature.

Random rubble pier extending NW along shoreline, mainly straight but curving slightly to W at far end. The pier is covered by an exceptionally long continous red tiled fishscale roof supported on regularly spaced treek trunk columns with rustic timber handrails and struts between. Clapboarding to bargeboarded gables. The floating pier consists of a riveted iron tank with timber rubbing strakes, linked to the pavilion by a hinged plate girder span. A cast iron handrail runs to the floating pier.