Description
Circa 1870. Circa 1870, style of Alexander Ross. 2-storey and
attic asymmetrical building with Gothic and Baronial detailing. Principal fronts to north (facing former ferry) and west,
with entrance in NW re-entrant angle. All rubble with tooled
ashlar dressings; some modern harling to flanks and rear.
All principal ground floor windows are pointed headed, to
north in series of 4, linked by intervening shafted jambs;
similar detailing to fenestration of facetted single storey
bowed bay projecting at NE, with quatrefoil detailing
to balustrade. Further 2-storey facetted entrance porch in
NW re-entrant angle, with similar decoration to balustrade.
Recessed pointed-headed entrance into lobby. Some 1st
floor pointed-headed windows in north and east elevations;
Gabletted dormers, some breaking wallhead; 2 and 4-pane glazing. Bartizans flank wallhead angles of principal fronts, with
shouldered lancets and pepperpot conical slated roofs.
Trefoil vents to attic gables; band and cill courses; corniced
ridge stacks; slate roofs. Modern 2-storey extension and
bar entrance projects at east.
North gable end of steading range masked by 2-storey, T-plan lodge/service accommodation. All building materials as in
main hotel block; long dummy slits in each face of centre
projecting gabled wing, with band course and quatrefoil vent
in gable. Harled single storey range to rear. Garden walls;
low coped rubble wall fronts hotel; further enclosed by high
rubble wall to south.