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Former coaching inn, now in use as a hotel, built in the earlier 19th century with later 19th and 20th century additions and alterations. It is a two-storey and attic, irregular-plan building constructed from squared and coursed granite with finely finished dressings and gableted dormers. The grey slate roof has a stone and lead ridge, coped ridge stacks and a corniced ridge stack to the entrance bay, all with octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The original part of the south-west entrance elevation is a five-bay, two-storey block, with mid 19th century wings added to form a Z-plan. The central gabled entrance bay is advanced, and has a round-arched doorway to the ground floor flanked by stone pilasters, a timber door and a painted crest in the tympanum. Above this is a window to the centre of the first floor and there are windows to the ground floor of the two flanking bays to the south. A canopy between the ground and first floors obscure the flanking bays to the west. The first and attic floors have regular. To the south is an advanced gabled wing with an advanced rectangular tripartite window through the ground and first floors. A gabled bay to the outer west has a canted window to the first floor. Adjoining to the outer south is the late 19th century, three-storey, symmetrical three-bay crenellated addition. It has a central doorway flanked to both sides by four-light canted windows. There are regularly placed bipartite windows to the first and second floors and a crowstepped gable to the centre back incorporating a stack at the gablehead. The south-east elevation has the mid 19th century addition to the south, flanked to the east by a 20th century addition. The 19th century block is single storey and attic, and six-bay with altered openings and a gabled bay. There is a single-storey block to the north-east elevation. The north-west elevation has the mid 19th century, five-bay granite wing to the west, with regular fenestration to the ground, first and attic floors of the three bays to the west and a panelled timber door to the north, flanked to by an infilled, round-archway containing a window. There are gabled windows to the first floor. To the north is a two-storey, seven-bay harled addition with a glazed timber door to the west, a doorway to the north left and irregular fenestration to the remaining ground floor bays. Gabled windows break the eaves to the first floor. The resident's bar contains a stained glass window commemorating Donald Dinnie (a world famous athlete). There is a small, octagonal, gazebo on the grounds to the southwest (NO59NW0106).
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