Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56616828

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)