Description

Later 18th century; substantially remodelled 1870; restaurant extension added by Peddie & McKay, 1956. Narrow site, 3-storey baronial hotel. Square and snecked rubble; painted ground floor; ashlar dressings, some painted.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: entrance door with short forestair and adjoining window; single window at 1st and 2nd floors above. Slim light in left bay at ground. Splayed SW corner with crowstepped gable; entrance door; bipartite windows with cusped heads at 1st and 2nd floors above; single trefoil window at attic.

N ELEVATION: large window in centre at 1st floor; single window in left bay at 2nd floor; small window at attic above. Modern extension.

E ELEVATION: modern extension at ground floor. Large canted bay at 1st floor rising into smaller 2nd floor bay; attic window above. Bipartite in right bay at 1st and 2nd floors; attic window above. Square turret corbelled out at 2nd floor SE angle.

S ELEVATION: single window in left bay at 1st and 2nd floors; central window at attic. Single storey flat-roofed extension with port-holes adjoining to outer right.

Variety of glazing patterns. Slate roof; crowstepped skews; rubble stacks at gable ends; S stack reduced in height.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

Statement of Interest

The hotel occupies a prominent location in the townscape of Queensferry; it rests at the crest of Edinburgh Road marking the old boundary of Queensferry. From the E it is given greater prominence as it is arguably the first building of Queensferry that is seen. Much remodelled in 1870 by addition of baronial details.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645913

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings