Description
James B Dunn, 1896-7. Arts and Crafts and Baronial details.
3-storey basement and attic asymmetrical hotel. Harled with
ashlar sandstone dressings. Ashlar band course above basement
and above 2nd floor where corbelled at intervals. Slate roof
with swept eaves.
MAIN FRONT: 2 turrets flank NE entrance approached over
balustraded bridge; arched doorway between with balustrade
above echoed at 3rd floor by timber balustrade with arch over
balcony. Sandstone panels under eaves. Canted bay to ground
floor in advanced gable to E; corner canted bay rising to 2nd
floor to N, both with waved parapets and ball finials.
Crowstepped gable with apex stack on each elevation. 2 at SW
rear. Ogee and semi-circular dormer pediments where 3rd floor
windows break eaves. Small gabled dormers in attic.
Small-paned and plate glass sashes; small-paned casements.
Rubble boundary wall, round piers, harled by roadside.
Addition to NW elevation - gabled attic dormer for lift
shaft; blind windows below.
Former Manager's House to SW adjoined circa 1914.
INTERIOR: 18 feet ceilings at ground floor, diminishing on
upper. Tiled vestibule and arched entrance. Decorative
plasterwork low arches. Pitch-pine stair balustrade with
mahogany rail. Panelled doors. Carron Co grates in places.
Much of the interior altered.
Statement of Special Interest
Style echoes S Henbest Capper's Ramsay Gardens, Edinburgh
1892. Inscription May 1897 found on original wallpaper gave
date. Symbolism employed in original interior: the seasons on
4 floors, 12 public rooms, 7 bathrooms, 52 bedrooms, 365
windows all following the calendar. Built for Mrs Fleck.
Exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy 1896.