Description

John Armstrong, 1883. Busy 6-storey and double attic Free Renaissance hotel on corner site with shops at ground. Polished cream sandstone ashlar, with Peterhead granite shafts to windows. Traces of pilastered corniced shopfronts remain. Small corner drum capped by engaged domed tempietto. Facades framed by channelled pilaster strips (polished granite at ground). Alternate bays project slightly from 1st to 4th floors. Complex but regular blend of trabeated, Venetian and arcaded windows, with segmental pediments at 5th floor. Modillioned cornice; mansard roof with end pavilions; arched dormers to 1st attic and oculi to 2nd; brattishing lost. 8 bays to Princes Street; 6 to South St David Street, N bay bowed with ashlar attics.

Rendered rear elevation with open well and applied iron fire escape.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Grey slates.

INTERIOR: much altered but Dining Room at corner of 1st floor survives with elaborate plasterwork and fluted Corinthian columns.

Statement of Interest

A very tall building for its age, it was originally served by hydraulic lifts.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17803953

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)