Douglas Hotel, Brodick, Arran

The Douglas Hotel in Brodick, Arran, dates from around 1856 and includes an earlier building at the rear, along with various later additions. It is a two-storey hotel with an attic and an irregular plan. The earlier section features harled, stugged, and snecked red rubble sandstone on the gable, topped with a slate roof. It has multi-pane sash and case windows with ashlar margins, piend-roofed dormers, and ashlar-coped skews. The main building is constructed of stugged and snecked red rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and a platform slate roof. It includes a base course, cill course, and an eaves course that incorporates a string course with short vertical shafts at the eaves. The windows are a mix of single and bipartite 12-pane sash and case types, with a 4-pane addition on the west side, and gabled dormerheads that break through the eaves. The building features corniced and linked octagonal stacks and decorative cast-iron rainwater goods with hoppers.

On the east elevation, the main building is positioned to the right, featuring a tripartite doorpiece at the center with thick ashlar margins and a shallow canopy. There are windows on either side, three windows on the first floor, and a dormerhead in the center. To the left, there is a two-bay flat-roofed section with a single-storey lean-to that connects to the gable of the earlier building on the far left, which has a single-storey pitched roof bay with three windows on the ground floor, two windows on the first floor, and one window in the attic.

The south elevation shows the earlier building on the right with a door at the center, a window to the left, and a greatly enlarged window to the right. There are three windows on the first floor and two dormers, with 20th-century additions extending to the left.

The north elevation features a massive two-storey semi-octagonal bay at the center of the main building, with bipartite windows and a coped parapet. There are windows on the ground and first floors to the left and right, along with five dormerheads. The slightly advanced later bays to the right have two windows on the ground and first floors, and two dormerheads.

The west elevation is largely obscured by later additions, displaying five windows on the first floor, a nepus gable with stacks, and three dormerheads. The interior has not been seen.