Description
Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority
Shalloch is a large white harled U-plan house, built in at least 2 distinct phases; the original rectangular-plan house built 1760-1763, and the W and E wings added in the mid-19th century. The house is set back from the road, and fronted by a large flat garden area. To the rear of the house is a long single storey range, formerly providing stabling etc, probably dating to the late 18th century. Shalloch is a multi-phase building, and historical interest as a manse.
The original 1760s 2-storey, 3-bay building forms the central focus of the front (S) elevation of the house; a central pedimented doorpiece is obscured by a large rustic timbered porch, a later 19th century addition; this part of the house also has an eaves course to front and rear. The mid-19th century extensions saw the addition of a gabled bay to the left, which has a 2-bay return to the W elevation, which then drops down to a single storey piend-roofed section with narrow slit openings. Both these sections have broad sparred eaves, which would have been added to the original block to match the roof of the new W wing.
On the E side, an additional service wing with a lower ridge line was also added around the mid-19th century, although the difference in style suggests this was not at the same time as the W addition. The E wing is seen as a recessed gable end to the right of the front elevation; this gable has a double window to ground floor, and 2 round-headed windows to 1st floor, with a corbelled gable-end stack between. The E elevation has a gabled bay to the left. This wing also drops down to a single storey piend-roofed section, which forms the rear access to the house with a timber-panelled door to the N.
The rear (N) elevation has the projecting stair bay of the original house to the centre which is flanked by several small lean-to additions of late 18th and 19th century date.
Interior:
Several rooms with narrow roll-moulded cornices, some original joinery. Bolection-moulded timber chimneypiece to lounge. Impressive stone dog-leg stair with winders and extended stone newel. In E kitchen wing, secondary stair with timber-lined walls.
Materials:
Mainly harled; centre section painted rubble to rear; narrow droved margins and strip quoins. 2-leaf timber-panelled storm doors to front elevation. Mostly timber sash and case; 16-pane glazing to original block; 12-pane horizontal glazing to W wing and some rear openings; some non-traditional uPVC windows to E wing, remainder timber sash and case including 10-pane round-headed windows. Pitched roofs (except where stated above); graded slate. Coped ridge stack to W of original block; wallhead stack to W elevation; corbelled-out gable-end stack with triple brick cope to S gable of E wing; wallhead stack to former dairy; mix of octagonal cans. Mainly cast iron rain-water goods.
Outbuilding:
Situated directly to the rear of the house, a long rectangular range with pitched slate (graded to S) roof which may have been raised slightly in the past. Built of random rubble with roughly squared margins and quoins, the S elevation has 5 door openings, at least 2 of which have been enlarged from their original forms.
Gatepiers:
At the foot of the W access drive, square-plan rendered gatepiers, each with a decorative painted plaque bearing the name of the house.