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Hotel, still in use, dated 1884 with later additions and alterations. It is a three-storey and attic, five-bay, near-symmetrical, rectangular-plan hotel in an irregular terrace, constructed from stugged, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, painted at the ground floor, with projecting cills and stone mullions. The graded grey slate roof has coped ashlar gablehead and wallhead stacks with circular and octagonal cans. The principal east elevation has a central ground-floor single window under a relieving arch (formerly a pend), with a bipartite to the north and a glazed door at the outer north. There is a similar door to the south, a door with a plate glass fanlight and adjacent fixed display window to a shopfront under a timber fascia at the outer south. A wall-mounted clock is set in a slightly raised decorative pedimented panel at the lintel level between the outer north bays. Four carved heads and a central shield date stone are regularly disposed between the ground and first floors. The four carved heads are possibly 17th century, and are thought to have originated at the nearby Dunnottar Castle (NO88SE0007). Although badly weathered, the fine carving can still be seen on those of the female and lion heads. The first and second floors have a blank central bay and regular fenestration to the outer bays. A nepus gable has a round-arched window at the centre, flanked by gabled bipartite stone wallhead dormers, that to the south retaining a stone finial. The rear west elevation has a variety of openings to the asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation, including a pitch-roofed outshot at the second floor and two piended wallhead dormers. Inside there is a little-altered public bar, probably dating from the early 1900s, which retains moulded cornices, a timber-fronted bar counter with scroll consoles supporting a new (2007) counter, a three-bay mirrored back gantry and bench seating. A lounge to the east (created from the adjoining building) has timber lintels and a cabinet enclosing the workings of the clock situated at the front of the building.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)