Description

The building is a three-storey, seven-bay former hotel designed around 1900 by D and JR McMillan Architects which incorporates a late 18th to earlier 19th century lower gabled section at the rear.

The building has six stone Jacobean style gabled dormers to the principal elevation (west) and an angled polygonal corner turret bay to the southwest. The ground floor has two shopfronts which have stone mullions between large plate glass windows and timber panelled storm doors with fanlights. The main elevation is built in dressed sandstone ashlar and it has Aberdeen bond stonework to the side and rear earlier section. The remaining openings are mostly replacement timber sash and case. The roof is slated with coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans, ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.

The building is first shown in on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map (surveyed 1864) as an L-plan building. The remodelled plan form with additions to the rear is evident on the 2nd revision (surveyed 1902). A historic photograph from the early 20th century shows the shop to the left was formally two paired smaller shop fronts with a central entrance door to the hotel above. Two of the former door openings have been altered to create the narrow windows in that shopfront. There appear to be few other changes to the principal elevation since that time. The upper floors were converted to flats around 2004 with new entrance accesses added to the rear.

The former hotel is prominently located on a corner site on the main commercial street in Stonehaven opposite the category B listed Market Square Buildings (LB41640) and next to the category B listed Town Hall (LB41534). The setting of the former hotel remains substantially unaltered since the early 20th century.

Statement of Interest

• It is a good representative example of a large commercial building dating from the turn of the 20th century.
• It retains its early 20th century form to Allardice Street with minimal alterations to the exterior and shop fronts.
• The later 18th to earlier 19th century rear section with a gable facing the sea is an example of the regional architectural tradition particular to Aberdeenshire shoreline towns and villages.
• It has a prominent town centre setting and is part of a group of late 19th and early 20th century civic and commercial buildings at the southeastern corner of the Market Square.
• The setting is substantially unaltered since the early 20th century.

Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2024. Previously listed as 'Allardice Street, Former Crown Hotel'

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56647093

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)