Northern Hotel, 2-4 Clerk Street, Brechin

1. Main corner block good coursers with band courses

and contrasting dressings 2 courses deep. 2-storey and attic.

5-window Clerk Street elevation, wide central door with

coupled pilasters and window over at slightly projected

centre bay, 3 canted dormers. Quadrant corner with later

arched doorpiece, recessed door, and flanking windows,

central first floor window in slightly advanced ashlar

panel rising into chimney stack supported by scrolls.

2-window elevation to Panmure Street with canted dormer.

Main cornice and blocking course. First floor sashes mostly

original, ground floor reglazed. Lower 2-storey 4-window

block with altered left hand ground floor window incorporated

on Clerk Street. Later 19th century range to east (not shown

on OS map surveyed 1862): higher 2-storey, 4-window first

floor arched and keyblocked, altered at ground floor.

3-storey 6-window range beyond in Panmure Street with large

entrance to rear court. Formerly stables of hotel. Slated

roofs. Pebbledashed rear elevations.

Interior has some good features eg ex-billiar room on second

floor north-east end. Heavy cornices and plaster decorated

roof, beams, 2 rooflights and 'Jacobean' chimneypiece.

Dining room (with arched windows onto Panmure Street) has

carved chimneypiece, two-tier cornice and central

floral boss. Elliptical corner room at both levels.