Description

Circa 1856, incorporating earlier building to rear; various later additions. 2-storey and attic, irregular-plan hotel. Earlier building: harled, stugged and snecked red rubble sandstone gable, slate roof; multi-pane sash and case windows with ashlar margins, piend-roofed dormers, ashlar-coped skews. Main building: stugged and snecked red rubble sandstone, ashlar dressings, platform slate roof; base course, cill course, eaves course incorporating string course with short vertical shafts to eaves; single and bipartite 12-pane sash and case windows, 4-pane to addition at W, gabled dormerheads breaking through eaves; corniced and linked octagonal stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: main building at right, tripartite doorpiece at centre with thick ashlar margins and shallow canopy, windows to left and right, 3 windows to 1st floor, dormerhead to centre; 2-bay flat-roofed section to left with single storey lean-to, linking to gable of earlier building at far left, single storey pitched roof bay with 3 windows masks ground floor, 2 windows to 1st floor, window to attic.

S ELEVATION: earlier building to right, door to centre, window to left, greatly enlarged window to right, 3 windows to 1st floor, 2 dormers; 20th century additions advanced to left.

N ELEVATION: massive 2-storey semi-octagonal bay to centre of main building with bipartite windows and coped parapet, window to ground and 1st floor at left and right, 5 dormerheads; 2 windows at ground and 1st floor, and 2 dormerheads at slightly advanced later bays to right.

W ELEVATION: ground floor.

Largely masked by later additions, 5 windows to 1st floor, nepus gable with stacks, 3 dormerheads.

INTERIOR: not seen.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619952

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)