30 and 32 Allardice Street and 3-11 (Odd Nos) Market Lane

The building at 30 and 32 Allardice Street and 3-11 Market Lane is a three-storey, seven-bay former hotel designed around 1900 by D and JR McMillan Architects. It features a lower gabled section at the rear that dates from the late 18th to early 19th century.

The principal elevation, facing west, showcases six stone Jacobean style gabled dormers and an angled polygonal corner turret bay to the southwest. The ground floor includes two shopfronts with stone mullions separating large plate glass windows and timber panelled storm doors topped with fanlights. The main elevation is constructed of dressed sandstone ashlar, while the side and rear sections exhibit Aberdeen bond stonework. Most of the remaining openings are replacement timber sash and case windows. The roof is slated, featuring coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.

The building first appears on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map from 1864 as an L-plan structure. The remodelled plan with rear additions is visible on the 2nd revision from 1902. An early 20th-century photograph reveals that the shop to the left was originally two smaller paired shop fronts with a central entrance door to the hotel above. Two former door openings have been modified to create narrow windows in that shopfront. There have been few other changes to the principal elevation since that time. The upper floors were converted into flats around 2004, with new entrance accesses added to the rear.

This former hotel is prominently situated on a corner site along the main commercial street in Stonehaven, directly opposite the category B listed Market Square Buildings and adjacent to the category B listed Town Hall. The setting of the former hotel has remained largely unchanged since the early 20th century.