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Latitude: 56.1189 / 56°7'8"N
Longitude: -3.9385 / 3°56'18"W
OS Eastings: 279574
OS Northings: 693491
OS Grid: NS795934
Mapcode National: GBR 1C.LH4X
Mapcode Global: WH4P6.GGRH
Plus Code: 9C8R4396+HH
Entry Name: Hog's Head, 2 Baker Street, Stirling
Listing Name: 2 Baker Street and 1 Friars Street, Hog's Head Public House
Listing Date: 26 March 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392231
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45363
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392231
Location: Stirling
County: Stirling
Town: Stirling
Electoral Ward: Stirling North
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
Tagged with: Pub
Circa 1905. 3-storey obtusely angled public house on corner site with residential accommodation above. Keystoned round-arched arcade at ground, deep base course, chamfered corner bay, deep fascia. Squared and snecked sandstone to 1st floor with ashlar dressings; harled 2nd floor. String course above 1st floor and cill course to 2nd floor.
SW (BAKER STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay with chamfered entrance bay to right. Arcaded public house bays at ground. Bipartite windows above ground in bay to outer left with crowstep gabled dormerhead breaking eaves above 2nd floor window, single windows in bay flanking to right , that at 2nd floor with curvilinear head breaking eaves.
CORNER BAY: chamfered with pub entrance at ground, 2-leaf, part glazed doors; ornate corbels flanking supporting canted corner tower with regular fenestration to both floors and substantial polygonal roof above eaves with finial.
SE (FRIARS STREET) ELEVATION: 2 arcaded public house bays at ground to left, blocked opening and door to common stair to outer left in architraved surrounds. 2-bay above ground with single windows to each floor to left, breaking eaves in swept dormerhead at 2nd, and bipartite windows to outer right, breaking eaves in crowstep gabled dormerhead at 2nd floor.
Timber sash and case windows with small-pane glazing pattern to upper sashes, plate glass lower. Modern windows to 2nd floor to Baker Street lacking profile and non-traditional in form. Grey slates. Red ridge tiles. Gablehead stacks to mutual gable walls and to ridge at centre.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
Prominently sited at foot of Baker Street, well-designed for corner site which it turns with solid style.
Information received suggests McLuckie and Walker were architects of 2 Baker Street.
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