Royal Hotel, Allardice Street, Stonehaven

Circa 1900, with later alterations and additions. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay, terraced hotel with broad oriel bays and mock half-timbering. Finely droved sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Bracketed ground floor cornice, 1st and 2nd floor window cornices, that to 2nd incorporated into eaves cornice. Stone transoms and mullions, raked cills.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: ground floor with 2 fixed windows (each consisting of serpentine timber transom and 2 mullions) flanked by 2-leaf panelled timber door at outer left and altered entrance at outer right. Pair of 5-light shallow canted transomed windows rising through each bay at 1st and 2nd floors, and giving way to decorative metalwork parapet with 'ROYAL HOTEL' lettering, pair of 5-light dormer windows above with half-timbered gableheads.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Broad coped ashlar stacks with full-complement of polygonal cans; ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts; decorative bargeboarding.