Highland Hotel, 18 High Street, Nairn

1. Duncan Cameron. French Renaissance detail. Large

purpose built hotel of 3 storeys with gabled and mansard

attic, 10 bays to High Street and 14 bays to Leopold Street.

Red ashlar sandstone. Banded ground floor; Corinthian columns

in antis to recessed High Street entrance, with Venetian

mosaic floor and ornate tiled walls; pilastered windows in

balancing bays on return elevations. Shop fronts divided by

banded piers. Some modern display windows.

Pilasters divide each bay in upper floors; oriel at canted

angle and two oriel windows symmetrically placed in shaped,

gabled bays to each street elevation at 1st floor, the latter

with green copper fish scale roofs. Triangular or segmental

pediments to all 1st floor windows. Simple windows 2nd floor

linked by moulded cill band. Open parapet with urns to

central bays; 4 pedimented dormers set in shaped gables;

dormers to mansard; pyramidal spire with cresting; slate

roof. Interior; enriched neo-Jacobean plaster ceilings and

friezes; panelling and ornate staircase with panelled

balustrade and carved newels.