Description

1896. Duncan Cameron. French Renaissance detail. Large
purpose built hotel of 3 storeys with gabled and mansard
attic, 10 bays to High Street and 14 bays to Leopold Street.
Red ashlar sandstone. Banded ground floor; Corinthian columns
in antis to recessed High Street entrance, with Venetian
mosaic floor and ornate tiled walls; pilastered windows in
balancing bays on return elevations. Shop fronts divided by
banded piers. Some modern display windows.
Pilasters divide each bay in upper floors; oriel at canted
angle and two oriel windows symmetrically placed in shaped,
gabled bays to each street elevation at 1st floor, the latter
with green copper fish scale roofs. Triangular or segmental
pediments to all 1st floor windows. Simple windows 2nd floor
linked by moulded cill band. Open parapet with urns to
central bays; 4 pedimented dormers set in shaped gables;
dormers to mansard; pyramidal spire with cresting; slate
roof. Interior; enriched neo-Jacobean plaster ceilings and
friezes; panelling and ornate staircase with panelled
balustrade and carved newels.

Statement of Interest

"Station Hotel" inscribed in tiles on entrance porch floor.

Plans with Technical Services, Nairn District, Nairn.

Change of Category C(S) to B,8 August 1994

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17828401

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014