Description

Opened 1879 with additions 1884. W C Joass further additions 1900-1.

Large purpose-built hotel, 3-storey and attic gabled hotel, asymmetrical 9-bay NW entrance front. Coursed grey rubble, contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. Wide projecting arched porte archere with decorative cast-iron balastrade into which glazed porch inserted at right of building. Projecting wing (addition probably 1900-1) at NE with canted

end rising 3 storeys with bipartites in ground and 1st floors gabled dormer heads to 2nd floor windows. 2-pane glazing; gabled dormer heads piended dormers; end and ridge stacks with batteries of tall chimney cans; projecting slate roofs.

Gate Piers; pair square rusticated ashlar gate piers with square caps copped by diminutive crenellated detailing. Gate piers flanked by low coped quadrants with decorative cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

W C Joass was possibly the architect for the main building. See Tender Notice 1873 for large hotel.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56616907

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014