Description

James M Monro of Glasgow, 1907, partially rebuilt by him 1941. 3-storey and attic, 5 X 5-bay Glasgow Style hotel of approximate L-plan on corner site. Bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone with polished red sandstone ashlar dressings, partially roughcast NE elevation. Cornice at eaves. Ground floor bipartite windows with sloping cills, 1st floor windows transomed, with projecting cills, corniced cills at 2nd floor. Circular 3-storey corner tower corbelled out at 1st floor over chamfered corner.

SE (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: 5 bays, including corner tower to outer right with bipartite window at ground. Modern shop frontage with corniced timber fascia above at ground in bays to left. Segmentally-arched main entrance in bay to right. Symmetrical elevation to left of corner tower comprising 3-light canted oriels at 1st floor outer bays with bipartite windows at 2nd floor above. 4-flue wallhead stack breaking eaves at 3rd floor centre, adjoined by gablet coped dormers.

NE (KINLOCH ROAD) ELEVATION: 5 bays, including corner tower to outer left with bipartite window at ground floor. 2nd bay blank, bipartite window at ground floor, 3rd and 5th bays with infilled doorway between. 3-light parapetted canted oriel corbelled out at 1st floor, 5th bay with bipartite widow above.

REAR ELEVATIONS: roughcast, irregularly fenestrated with ashlar cills, lintels and mullions.

Plate glass windows at ground and 1st floor of principal elevations,

4 and 6-pane upper sashes with plate glass lower sashes at 2nd and 3rd floors. Mainly 4-pane at rear elevation. Glazed screen in entrance arch with leaded stained glass in upper lights, 2-leaf glazed timber entrance doors. 2 leaded stained glass windows in rear elevation. Grey slate mansard roof with exposed rafter ends at rear elevations, metal ogee tower roof with finial absent. Timber slate-hung corniced box dormers over outer bays of SE elevation and over 3 right-hand bays of NE elevation. Cast-iron gutters and downpipes, gutters profiled and downpipes with hoppers at principal elevations. Stacks all corniced with circular red cans, ashlar multi-flue stack to W of tower, roughcast multi-flue apex stacks at end gables, roughcast wallhead stacks at rear elevations and between 3rd and 4th bay of NE elevation.

Statement of Interest

In July 1907, Archibald Johnston, Hotel Keeper, applied for warrant to erect a hotel fronting Main Street and Kinloch Road. In January 1941, he applies to "make alterations to Royal Hotel (damaged by enemy action)" which was due to damaged sustained when the neighbouring Victoria Halls were hit by a bomb in 1940. The partially harled NE elevation is evidence of this rebuilding. The corner tower enhances the imposing presence of this building on this prominent waterfront site.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56648050

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2