Highland Hotel, 18 High Street, Nairn

The Highland Hotel, located at 18 High Street in Nairn, was built in 1896 by Duncan Cameron and features French Renaissance details. This large, purpose-built hotel has three storeys, a gabled and mansard attic, with ten bays facing High Street and fourteen bays on Leopold Street. The exterior is constructed of red ashlar sandstone, with a banded ground floor and Corinthian columns framing the recessed entrance on High Street, which includes a Venetian mosaic floor and ornate tiled walls. The shop fronts are divided by banded piers, with some modern display windows.

On the upper floors, pilasters separate each bay, and there is an oriel window at a canted angle along with two symmetrically placed oriel windows in shaped, gabled bays on each street elevation at the first floor. These oriel windows feature green copper fish scale roofs. All first-floor windows are topped with triangular or segmental pediments, while simple windows on the second floor are linked by a moulded cill band. The central bays have an open parapet adorned with urns, and there are four pedimented dormers set in shaped gables, along with dormers on the mansard roof. The hotel is capped with a pyramidal spire that has cresting and a slate roof.

Inside, the hotel boasts enriched neo-Jacobean plaster ceilings and friezes, along with paneling and an ornate staircase featuring a panelled balustrade and carved newels.