Longview Hotel, 122-6 High Street, Forres

The Longview Hotel, located at 122-126 High Street in Forres, was designed by John Rhind and built between 1881 and 1882. This building showcases Scottish Revival architecture with an ashlar stone frontage. It stands three storeys high with an attic and features four bays.

The ground floor retains original shopfronts supported by slender columns. The upper floors are distinguished by two-storey oriel windows with pierced parapets at the outer bays. These outer bays rise into crowstep gabled attic and garret storeys. The inner bays have balconies on the first floor, with windows and cornices topped by scrolled pediments. At the attic level, the inner bays are adorned with steeply pedimented dormers that contain oval windows.

A corbelled crenellated parapet is present at the inner bays, with the corbelling extending across the outer bays to support the pierced parapet above the oriels. Additionally, there are corbelled conical-roofed angle turrets. The building is richly detailed, featuring heraldic beasts perched atop the gables and outer bays, as well as climbing up the pediments of the inner bays. The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing.