Longview Hotel, 122-6 High Street, Forres

John Rhind, 1881-82. Scottish Revival; ashlar frontage. 3

storeys and attic. 4 bays. Original shopfronts with slender

columns at ground floor; at upper floors, 2-storey oriels

with pierced parapets at outer bays; outer bays carried up as

crowstep gabled attic and garret storeys; at inner bays,

balconies at 1st floor, windows and cornices with scrolled

pediments above them; at attic level at inner bays steeply

pedimented dormers with oval windows; plate glass glazing.

Corbelled crenellated parapet at inner bays, the corbelling

carried across the outer bays to bear the pierced parapet

above the oriels and corbelled conical-roofed angle turrets.

Elaborate detail including heraldic beasts perched on top of

gables or outer bays and climbing up pediments of inner bays.