Description

Thomas Mackenzie, 1853. Large 4-storey, 3-bay Italiante
hotel with 4-bay frontage to Moss Street; 4-storey and
attic, 3-bay wing to rear; 2-storey, single bay wing to
W gable. Harled, rubble rear and wing; polished ashlar
dressings and margins; bullfaced rubble to raised
basement, rusticated quoins. Recessed narrow centre bay
with round-arched entrance and bellcast canopy porch,
approached by flight of steps. Flanking tripartites with
shallow corbelled and balustraded balconies;
round-headed tripartites to 1st floor, also with balconies.
Moulded architraves to windows, corniced to 1st floor
Moss Street windows, quoins; moulded eaves course;
modillioned eaves; tall chimney stacks; shallow piended
slate roof.
Circa 1985 rear wing.
2-storey centre arched stable block to E gable now
converted to hotel use; harled with bullfaced rubble
centre bay; slate roof.
High rubble garden walls to rear and to Moss Street;
pair square ashlar gatepiers to Moss Street.

Statement of Interest

Corner site with Moss Street.

Former Item 140 (1981 Revised List).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17825233

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