Description
1842. Main corner block good coursers with band courses
and contrasting dressings 2 courses deep. 2-storey and attic.
5-window Clerk Street elevation, wide central door with
coupled pilasters and window over at slightly projected
centre bay, 3 canted dormers. Quadrant corner with later
arched doorpiece, recessed door, and flanking windows,
central first floor window in slightly advanced ashlar
panel rising into chimney stack supported by scrolls.
2-window elevation to Panmure Street with canted dormer.
Main cornice and blocking course. First floor sashes mostly
original, ground floor reglazed. Lower 2-storey 4-window
block with altered left hand ground floor window incorporated
on Clerk Street. Later 19th century range to east (not shown
on OS map surveyed 1862): higher 2-storey, 4-window first
floor arched and keyblocked, altered at ground floor.
3-storey 6-window range beyond in Panmure Street with large
entrance to rear court. Formerly stables of hotel. Slated
roofs. Pebbledashed rear elevations.
Interior has some good features eg ex-billiar room on second
floor north-east end. Heavy cornices and plaster decorated
roof, beams, 2 rooflights and 'Jacobean' chimneypiece.
Dining room (with arched windows onto Panmure Street) has
carved chimneypiece, two-tier cornice and central
floral boss. Elliptical corner room at both levels.