Scottish Veterans Garden Settlement, Esher Crescent, Stirling Road, Callander

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

1919-1920. Stewart & Patterson (Glasgow). Crescent of 12 single storey and attic houses built in a domestic Baronial style for war veterans. The crescent is formed from a mirrored pair of curved terraces to the NW and SE, a war memorial is set to the centre. This group has both architectural and historic interest. Its shows the influence of Robert Lorimer in its design, detailing, and choice of traditional materials. Historically the buildings are good examples of social housing built throughout Scotland between the World Wars. The foundation stone was laid by Robert Munro, Secretary of State for Scotland, in 1919. The crescent also makes a distinctive contribution to the townscape of Callander's main thoroughfare.

Each crescent comprises of symmetrical pairs of houses with the entrance door set to the centre flanked by bipartite windows and either a single piended, pitched or arched breaking eaves dormer window arranged above. The crescent ends are terminated by advanced single bay pavilions. Those to the outer pavilions have stepped tripartite windows and piend-roofed dormers. The inner pavilions feature squat 2-storey circular stair.

War Memorial

Rustic memorial comprising of dome-capped rubble columns linked by a wall containing a memorial and a slate slab bench.

Materials

Random rubble 'pudding stone' walls and stacks. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Vertically-boarded timber entrance doors with 4-pane glazed uppers. Continuous pitched grey slate roofs, piended at pavilions. Random rubble dormer heads to majority of attic windows. Rustic string courses to towers and chimney stacks.