Description

Circa 1791 with later alterations and additions. 2-storey and attics, 13-bay hotel comprising former pair of 3-bay crowstepped gabled houses to left, with (later) gabled dormers, breaking eaves, (2 dormers to right finialled), further box dormers to left block, and 2 flat-roofed single storey entrance porches; 2-storey 4-bay addition slightly recessed to right; flat-roofed single storey addition to outer right; modern 2-storey projection at right angles to rear, (S). Harled. Ashlar dressings to entrance porches.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped, 3-3-3-3. 3-bay group to left of centre: window in entrance porch at ground in bay to centre; Doric pilasters flanking modern, part-glazed door with letterbox fanlight in left return; window in right return; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking. 3-bay block to outer left: window in entrance porch at ground in bay to centre; part-glazed modern door with letterbox fanlight in left return; window in right return; window at each floor above; window at each floor with 2, evenly disposed box dormers above in each bay flanking. Recessed 4-bay block to right of centre: window at each floor in 2 bays to centre. Part-glazed modern door at ground in bay to outer right; windows at 1st floor above. 2-leaf boarded doors to round-arched doorway in single storey, rectangular-plan porch with cast-iron balcony to internal angle to outer left; window at 1st floor above to main block. Window in each bay to 3-bay block to outer right.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated with additions spanning bays at ground, 4, evenly disposed gabletted attic window breaking eaves and 7-bay piended projection at right angles to outer left.

Predominantly 4-pane timber-framed windows with top-hung upper lights. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; stone skews; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: converted as hotel; not fully seen, 1998.

Statement of Interest

Originally 2 adjoining houses which have subsequently been converted and extended to a hotel. They are sited on reclaimed land at the inner end of the 'ayre', the natural spit which separates the 'Peedie Sea' from the Bay. The eastern house was the home of James Erskine, merchant, who built them both, while the western one was the last town house of the Stewarts of Brough, Westray and later of the Traills of Holland in Papa Westray.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827526

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)