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Hotel, still in use, built in the later-19th century with significant later alterations and additions in the 1890s and 1900s, including an additional floor and a new frontage in 1898 and a new entrance porch by A Marshall MacKenzie in 1905. It now incorporates a near contemporary single-storey building to the north. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as a U-plan building open to the north, with a rectangular and an L-plan building to the north. On the 2nd edition OS map it has been extended so that around half the court has been filled. The rectangular building has been removed and the L-plan building extended so that it joins the central wing of the main hotel building. There is a rectangular building to the east of it, also joined to the hotel. To the west is a small circular building. Current maps show further additions, and the circular building has been removed. It is a large, three-storey and attic, purpose built hotel, built in traditional Highland character with overhanging eaves, gabled principal elevation and timber decorative bargeboards, and constructed of squared coursed pink granite rubble, grey to outer bays, with rubble to other elevations. Its distinctive regional style is also displayed by the Aberdeen-bonded stonework. There are large squared and coursed rubble stacks to the ridge of the south elevation, with wallhead stacks to the east, north and west. The roof is of purple slates, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. Openings on the third floor are hood-moulded, and the storeys are divided by cill courses. The principal south elevation has a near-symmetrical three-gabled central section with advanced outer bays. The advanced bay to the east has a weathervane. Set within a long rustic single-storey verandah with timber uprights is an off-centre crenellated two-storey, two-bay entrance porch from 1905, with a pair of depressed arches with hoodmoulds and a painted Coat of Arms of the Dukes of Fife to the crenellations. The building retains its timber and case windows with distinctive Arts and Crafts multi-paned upper sashes and large number of original stacks. The interior has been modernised. There are two chimneypieces with timber surrounds, one with full height reeded pilasters and a Duke of Fife Coat of Arms overmantle. During World War II the Fife Arms Hotel was used as a military base, firstly by the Royal Artillery and then by No.4 Commando Unit.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)