Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BALFRON, THE CLACHAN, ORCHARDFIELD HOUSE, INCLUDING GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH AND WESTLB4168

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
05/09/1973
Local Authority
Stirling
Planning Authority
Stirling
Parish
Balfron
NGR
NS 54763 89222
Coordinates
254763, 689222

Description

Late 18th century with later addition. 2-storey; 3-bay; symmetrical; rectangular-plan; detached house with short single storey service wing (probably slightly later) to W. Harled with painted ashlar dressings. Eaves cornice. Architraved openings.

S ELEVATION: central entrance; 6-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight. Window above and flanking windows to each floor. 2 windows to single storey wing to outer left.

N ELEVATION: stair window to centre. Window to each floor to flanking bays. Window to single storey wing to outer right.

W ELEVATION: entrance to left of single storey wing; window to right. 1st floor window set back to right of gable end of main block.

E ELEVATION: blank gable end.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof (that to single storey wing is piended). Coped gablehead stacks to either side (E and W) of main block; round cans.

INTERIOR: layout apparently intact. Some original 6-panel timber doors in replacement doorcases. Winding stone staircase with cast-iron balustrade

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: pair of square-plan sandstone ashlar gatepiers adjoining small section of wall to W of house; chamfered at arrises with base course, frieze, cornice and rounded coping; identical pier to pedestrian entrance immediately to W. Coursed rubble boundary wall adjoins to W and to E of house and continues to W at right angles to S; partially with rounded coping.

Statement of Special Interest

An intact house dating from the later Georgian period. According to Thomson it was formerly used as a schoolhouse. In 1832 it was inhabited by William Jaffray (he laid the foundation stone of the adjacent church in that year).

References

Bibliography

Appears (with addition) on 1861 ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP, 1/2500, Stirlingshire Sheet XV.13; John Guthrie Smith, STRATHENDRICK AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM EARLY TIMES (1896) p40; RCAHMS, STIRLINGSHIRE - AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS, VOL II (1963) p323-24; Charles McKean, STIRLING AND THE TROSSACHS - RIAS GUIDE (1985) p133; Jim Thomson, THE BALFRON HERITAGE (1991) p5.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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