Description
McKay and Scott, 1928. 2-storey house extended and converted to hotel. Dominant slate-hung porch. Painted harl with stone plinth, cills, partial dividing course, balconies and mullions.
S (MAIN) ELEVATION: 4-bay with former doorway blocked as window in single storey conservatory to outer left, centre with 2 quadripartite canted windows, balconies above with stone balusters and parapet, tripartite windows to 1st floor, window at ground to right with tripartite window above; bays divided by almost full-height pilaster-buttresses.
Piend-roofed extensions springing from NE corner.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced 4-bay ground floor including porch to outer left; porch flanked by triangular-capped buttresses with swept roof becoming parapet to 1st floor balcony with raised blind tablet at centre, deep-set banded ashlar doorcase; 3 large windows with neo-Georgian semicircular radial astragals to right (formerly conservatory) below balustraded balcony, window to left at 1st floor and door to balcony to outer right; modern rooflight to right of roof pitch.
W ELEVATION: pilaster-buttress to left of centre with narrow lights to both floors, window to right and left at ground and to right at 1st floor.
N ELEVATION: projecting polygonal, piend-roofed stair tower to right of centre with tall window flanked by narrow lights at intermediate level, 3 windows to left at ground and 1st floor with extension to outer left, 3 windows to right at ground and 1 window at 1st floor.
Piend-roofed extensions forming link with former motor house now converted as dwelling.
Mainly plate glass glazing in sash and case windows, some small-pane glazing to N. Graded grey slates, battered cope harled stacks with cans.
INTERIOR: neo-Georgian decorative scheme. Entrance hall with round-arched openings and round-headed doors with radial astragals, wooden staircase with paterae to corniced newel posts, round-headed niches in dining room. Blue tiled slips to timber, pilaster-flanked and panelled chimneypieces, moulded plaster cornices with paterae ceiling decoration.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: coped and harled round gatepiers with coped whinstone rubble boundary walls and low flat-coped walls to formal garden.
SUNDIAL: bronze sundial to N on raked, moulded shaft and chamfered plinth, circa 1928?
TERRACE: formal garden to S with fountain at centre and coped terrace walls, steps may have originally given access to River Leven.