Marine Hotel, Shorehead, Stonehaven

The Marine Hotel, located at Shorehead in Stonehaven, was built in 1884. This three-storey and attic hotel features a near-symmetrical, rectangular plan with five bays, situated within an irregular terrace. Notable architectural elements include a pedimented clock, sculpted heads positioned between the ground and first floors, and a nepus gable that is flanked by gabletted dormers. The building is constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, and the ground floor is painted. It has projecting cills and stone mullions.

On the principal elevation (east), the ground floor features a single window under a relieving arch in the centre bay, a bipartite window in the bay to the right, and a glazed door at the outer right. There is a similar door in the bay to the left of the centre, along with a door that has a plate glass fanlight and an adjacent fixed display window in the outer left shopfront, all under a timber fascia. A wall-mounted clock is set in a slightly raised decorative pedimented panel at lintel level between the outer bays on the right. Four carved heads and a central shield date stone are regularly placed between the ground and first floors. The centre bay is blank on the first and second floors, while the outer bays have regular fenestration. A round-arched window is located in the nepus gable at the centre, flanked by gabled bipartite stone wallhead dormers, with the left dormer retaining a stone finial.

The rear elevation (west) displays a variety of openings in an asymmetrical arrangement, including a pitch-roofed outshot at the second floor and two piended wallhead dormers. The ground floor has replacement windows, while the remainder predominantly features a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are coped ashlar gablehead and wallhead stacks with circular and octagonal cans.

Inside, the public bar, likely dating from the early 1900s, has seen little alteration and retains moulded cornices, a timber-fronted bar counter with scroll consoles supporting a new counter installed in 2007, a three-bay mirrored back gantry, and bench seating. The lounge to the east, created from an adjoining building, features timber lintels and a cabinet that encloses the workings of the clock situated at the front of the building. The upstairs bar was renovated in 2007.