Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

8 HIGH STREET AND 1 GOTE LANE, STAG HEAD HOTELLB40375

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
19/12/1979
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 12954 78388
Coordinates
312954, 678388

Description

Dated 1712; considerable later alterations. 2-storey, L-plan former house, now hotel. Principal elevation painted harl; painted margins; at rear exposed harl with smooth margins; painted base course; raised cill band; 1st floor fascia entablature across hotel front addition supported by 4 fluted pilasters;

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: ground floor 4-bay hotel front projecting addition. Pedimented principal door in left bay; panelled door with geometric fanlight in centre; flanking tripartites. 1st floor bays not in alignment with ground floor.

W ELEVATION: irregular fenestration; chamfered corners, more pronounced at left. Rear extension 4-storey, 2 bay.

N ELEVATION: 4-storey rear extension. Single window at ground in bay to right blocked; single window at 1st floor above; single window at 2nd floor in centre; single window at 3rd floor in centre.

E ELEVATION: function room extension to rear at 1st floor with fire stairs leading to car park. Exposed rubble at ground floor; blocked openings of earlier 3 bay building; central door with lintel dated 1712 flanked by windows with smooth margins and relieving arches.

4-pane timber sash and case windows to 1st-floor of principal elevation; modern glazing at rear; rest of fenestration predominantly sash and case. Grey slate roof; straight stone skews; rendered gablehead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

Statement of Special Interest

The area behind the hotel was the site of the demolished 19th century Glenforth Distillery. In a photograph of the principal elevation taken at the turn of the 20th century the hotel had a regular 2-storey, 3-bay front with a forestair leading up to the entrance; a design seen at 3 Edinburgh Road (see separate listing).

References

Bibliography

1st edition O S Map 1856; Queensferry Association QUEENSFERRY. A GUIDED WALK (1986), p24; Queensferry History Group BACK DOON THE FERRY (1992).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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