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Latitude: 56.1907 / 56°11'26"N
Longitude: -3.9591 / 3°57'32"W
OS Eastings: 278519
OS Northings: 701508
OS Grid: NN785015
Mapcode National: GBR 1B.FYB1
Mapcode Global: WH4NT.4NZJ
Plus Code: 9C8R52RR+79
Entry Name: Holme Hill Lodge, Holmehill House, Perth Road, Dunblane
Listing Name: Smithy Loan, Holmehill Lodge East, Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 28 October 1976
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363027
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26406
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363027
Location: Dunblane
County: Stirling
Town: Dunblane
Electoral Ward: Dunblane and Bridge of Allan
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Gatehouse
William Stirling, 1826 with later additions. Single and 2-storey, 3-bay, irregular plan, Tudor style, gabled lodge with 3 prominent, tall octagonal stacks to centre. Red ashlar sandstone painted red. Base course, chamfered parapet eaves course. Hoodmoulds and chamfered reveals to windows. Bracketted skewputts.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: slightly advanced, open porch to centre, clasped diagonal buttress to right, modern glazed door. Single bay to right with narrow window, Advanced gabled bay to left, advanced canted window to centre.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced, flat-roofed bays to outer left and centre with crenellated parapets, gable breaking eaves to rear. 2-storey gable end to right with single storey, advanced gabled bay abutting to centre.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: gable end to left, stone-mullioned, bipartite window, slightly advanced flat-roofed bay to right, embattled parapet, bipartite window.
W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end, small window to bay to left. Section of flat-roofed block to rear abutting to NW corner, linking to gable end of 2-storey, 3-bay later addition.
Multi-pane casement windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: (seen 2002). Plain interior recently renovated.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: octagonal, red ashlar sandstone, columns on plinths, moulded cornice, gableted caps. Bowed sections of wall in red ashlar and saddle-back coping flanking piers, terminating in plain outer piers; wall continues to right in random rubble.
William Stirling (1772-1838) was born in Dunblane and later built Holmehill House (demolished) as his own residence in the Tudor or Jacobean style of James Gillespie Graham and William Burn, similar to Cambusnethan House (see separate listing). For a complete list of works by Stirling, the majority of which were in his native Stirling and Perthshire, see Colvin, p 926.
Statutory address updated, 2012. Previously listed as Smithy Loan, Holmehill Lodge including Gatepiers.
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