Strathearn Hotel

The Strathearn Hotel, now flats, comprises two distinct blocks built in different periods. The left-hand block dates from the 1860s, designed by T.E. Owen, and is constructed of stucco and stone, with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack on the rear pitch. It is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and features two bays. The right-hand block, dating from around 1880-90, is built of red brick in stretcher bond, with rendered dressings, and has a Welsh slate mansard roof, with brick stacks on the left, right, and centre. This section is also two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and has four first-floor windows.

The left-hand block features long and short rendered quoin strips at the corners. A projecting left bay includes a three-light mullioned and transomed casement window, while the right bay has a shallow canted bay with similar five-light windows; the first floor is untransomed, and the whole is topped with a cornice and crenellated parapet, with a two-light casement in the attic gable. The left bay has two-light mullioned casements on the first floor and three small casements to the attic, with the centre casement taller. The rear of this block is of random rubble, with irregular long and short stone quoins, and includes a central three-storey tower with a cornice band and crenellated parapet, alongside a smaller tower to the right with corbelled stone brackets. A rectangular bay with a slate hipped roof is also present on the rear left.

The right-hand block has a central two-leaf, six-panelled door with moulded lower panels and an upper glazed section, overlight, and a fixed window light to the right. Pilasters flank the door and window, topped with heavy shaped brackets supporting a cornice. This is set within an ornate timber and glass porch. To either side are full-height tripartite canted bay windows with three sashes, separated by rendered pilasters. Ground-floor sashes have moulded rendered sills with brackets; moulded cornices run over the first-floor window heads, with pediments over the windows and paired sashes to the central bay. An elaborate ironwork balustrade sits on a continuous, bracketed balcony on the first and second floors, featuring rendered dressings. A frieze, cornice, and parapet blocking course complete the exterior, with four dormers visible. The interior of the building has not been inspected.