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Latitude: 57.0635 / 57°3'48"N
Longitude: -4.1225 / 4°7'20"W
OS Eastings: 271391
OS Northings: 798945
OS Grid: NN713989
Mapcode National: GBR JB61.LCK
Mapcode Global: WH4JG.NQ4C
Plus Code: 9C9Q3V7H+C2
Entry Name: Craigmhor Hotel, Newtonmore
Listing Name: Newtonmore, Craigmhor Hotel
Listing Date: 18 August 1986
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339635
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7672
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200339635
Location: Kingussie and Insh
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Badenoch and Strathspey
Parish: Kingussie And Insh
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Hotel building
Circa 1875, 2-storey and attic, 7-bay NW facing hotel.
Coursed grey granite frontage, mixed rubble flanks and
rear; tooled granite dressings. Off-centre entrance under
continuous 1st floor balcony linking 2-storey, 4-light
rectangular bay windows in outer bays and oversailing
wide near centre canted ground floor bay window. Ornate
cast-iron balustrade to balcony. Squat off-centre,
markedly bellcast piended slated tower breaks wallhead
with segmental headed dormers and capped by square corbelled
platform with decorative cast-iron balustrade. 2nd floor
windows break wallhead under gablets; plate glass lower
sashes, 4-pane upper. Coped end and ridge stacks; slate
roofs.
Inverness and Perth Junction Railway, later the Highland
Railway, reached Newtonmore in 1863, facilitating and
encouraging visitors to the Highlands. Craigmhor Hotel is
a good and virtually unaltered example of an hotel built
to accommodate these visitors.
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