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Waverley Hotel, 4-8 High Street, Nairn

A Category C Listed Building in Nairn, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.5837 / 57°35'1"N

Longitude: -3.8706 / 3°52'14"W

OS Eastings: 288254

OS Northings: 856394

OS Grid: NH882563

Mapcode National: GBR J8TP.1QT

Mapcode Global: WH4G2.JN23

Plus Code: 9C9RH4MH+FQ

Entry Name: Waverley Hotel, 4-8 High Street, Nairn

Listing Name: Waverley Hotel and 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 High Street

Listing Date: 12 March 1981

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 383782

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38423

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200383782

Location: Nairn

County: Highland

Town: Nairn

Electoral Ward: Nairn and Cawdor

Traditional County: Nairnshire

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Description

Dated 1877. Style of Matthews and Laurie, Inverness. 3
storeys and attic, 8 bays. Classical facade. Finely stugged
coursed rubble; polished ashlar dressings. Centre 2 bays
slightly advanced at 1st and 2nd floors, rising to gabled
pediment with scrolled crest and antefixae. Doors in outer
bays (now glazed as window, to right) with stilted heads and
bracketted cornices supporting balustrade to 1st floor outer
window. 1st floor windows all architraved and corniced with
apron panels, the 2 central and outer with enriched shell
pediments, and all linked by band course with guilloche
moulding. 2nd floor windows with lugged architraves and
bracketted cills, 2 central windows with segmental pediments.
Cast-iron bracket rhones; 4 modern box dormers; corniced
stacks; slate roof.
Modern shop facades at ground floor, arched entrance to side
passage.

Statement of Interest

Initials R.E. with date.

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