Stair Arms Hotel, Pathhead

The Stair Arms Hotel in Pathhead is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay coaching inn that includes a rear range, a stable range, and a single-storey extension. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and ashlar, featuring long and short quoins, and has crowstepped gables with beaked skewputts.

On the northeast elevation, the main entrance consists of a timber door set between a pair of Tuscan columns, which support a projecting architraved plinth-block. Above this is a crowstepped gablehead with a central window and a squared finial. The ground floor has a tripartite window flanking the advanced central bay, while dormer windows are present above the outer bays. To the left, there is a blind wall, and the right return features a two-storey gable end with a gablehead stack. The right side also has an eight-bay single-storey extension, which includes a bay, a four-bay projection, a two-bay section, and a single recessed bay with a semi-glazed door on the right return. A modern single-storey entrance porch is located to the left of the main entrance block, infilling a former courtyard entrance. This porch has an entrance door within a pair of Tuscan columns supporting an architraved canopy, with menu boarding to the right. The triple bay gable end has a wallhead stack to the left, and there is an adjoining single-storey crowstepped range to the far left, which connects to the southeast range to form a courtyard.

The southeast elevation has its ground floor hidden by the new entrance on the right, while the first floor features four bays of arched dormers. The left return adjoins the southwest range, and the right return connects to the rear of the main block. There is also a regularly fenestrated stable range to the southeast, which includes gablehead stacks and crowstepped gables.

The southwest elevation has not been seen since 2002. The northwest elevation is mostly obscured by a single-storey extension, which has a single dormer bay on the first floor to the left and a fire exit to the right, with a gable matching the right return of the main elevation adjoining to the right.

The windows include six-pane timber sash and case in tripartite arrangements, and eight-pane timber sash and case on the first floor and later extension. The roof is gabled with grey slate, and there is a flat-roofed later extension. The building features cast-iron rainwater goods and diagonally set square gablehead corniced flues with plain round cans.

Inside, the hotel has been refurbished, although some original features remain.