Stables, Dalandhui, Shore Road, Garelochhead

Dalandhui is a villa, built around 1860, and now operating as a hotel. It is situated on Shore Road, Garelochhead. The building is of a rambling plan, with a two-storey, three-bay main section and a single-storey gabled block to the right. It is constructed from whinstone and sandstone rubble, with polished sandstone margins and dressings. A base course and quoins are present, along with decorative bargeboards.

The main, southeast elevation features a two-bay main block with a single-storey gabled block to the outer right. A gable is slightly advanced to the right, and a full-height canted window is centrally located. This window is buttressed at ground level with criss-cross carved panels between the floors. The roof is slate-covered. To the left, a tripartite ashlar window is positioned at ground level, advanced slightly. Above it, a window is set within a gable that breaks the eaves. This is flanked to the right by a narrow ground-floor window with a window directly under the eaves above. The single-storey block to the outer right is of rubble construction with cement margins. It features a canted entrance with a modern glazed door, as well as modern windows and top-hopper windows.

The southwest (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical, with four bays. A blank gable is at the outer right, featuring a corbelled chimney breast at the gablehead, from which the stack has been removed. A bargeboarded porch is set within a re-entrant angle, incorporating a three-centred arch entrance, a stepped pierced balustrade, saddleback coping, and a six-panel, two-leaf door. A broad, two-bay gable to the right has windows symmetrically disposed, with a pierced trefoil window in the gablehead. A single-storey gabled service block is located to the left, with a window at its centre.

The northeast elevation features three bays with asymmetrical bargeboarded gables breaking the eaves. A window is centrally placed on the first floor, with flanking gables that have sandstone trefoils in the gableheads. A long, single-storey service block runs along the ground floor, with gables breaking the eaves.

The building features four-pane and plate glass sash and case windows. The roof is grey slate, with lead flashings. A shoulder coped, honey-coloured sandstone stack is present, as is a gabled, slate-hung dormer.

The interior includes a cast-iron stair with a wooden rail, plain cornices, and good plasterwork. A modern bar is located to the right, and the hotel rooms have been refurbished.

A gazebo is situated on stone steps leading uphill to the south of the house, offering views of the Gare Loch. This structure is an octagonal tower with a heavily battlemented parapet on corbels. It is constructed of whinstone with harl/cement pointing, featuring a pointed arch door and a trefoil-headed wooden window set into a square opening.

A two-storey, three-bay, rectangular-plan stable block is located nearby. The bays are arranged nearly symmetrically. It is of whinstone rubble with harl pointing, polished sandstone margins, and quoins. It has slightly advanced eaves, plain bargeboards, and a broad gable breaking the eaves at the centre. This contains a door at ground level with a blocked rectangular fanlight above. A broad window is positioned above, with the lower portion blocked by breeze blocks hiding an original 18-pane sash and case window. Six square flight-holes are in the gablehead. A broad coach door is to the left, along with a narrower window and door to the right. A gabled dormerhead breaks the eaves to the right, and steps lead to the upper floor on this side. Another broad coach door is to the outer left, with a gabled dormerhead above. The stable block also has four-, 12-, and 18-pane sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and coped ridge stacks with circular cans.

The boundary wall consists of rubble with harl pointing and semicircular boulder coping. It is flanked by painted ashlar piers with stop-chamfered arrises, moulded cornices, and low pyramidal caps.