Central Hotel, Station Road, Annan

Circa 1900. 3-storey turretted and gabled hotel with

renaissance ornament, occupying gushet site. Red ashlar with

band courses, most windows with stone transomes. Narrow S end

with turretted full-height octagonal corner bays flanking

main entrance, latter with curved and columned porch with

Jacobean columned 1st floor balcony over, shaped wall-head

gable with flanking stacks. 3 elevation to St John's Road

symmetrical with turretted outer bays, shallow advanced wide

inner bay with shaped gable, intermediate bays with

pedimented wall-head dormers. Slate roofs, steep-pitched and

facetted over turrets.

INTERIOR: original work by Messrs Taylor and Sons, Edinburgh;

some modern alterations.