Elderslie Hotel (formerly Priory Lodge), Broomfield Place, Largs

David and James Hamilton, Architects. Built 1829-30. Near

symmetrical 2-storey over basement 5-bay house with

Tudoresque detail, with single storey single bay wing to

north. Polished ashlar. Outer gabled bays slightly advanced,

with parapets, crenellated at left. Door with fanlight

and sidelights in left bay, with decorative cast-iron

canopy supported on delicate iron stanchions. Tripartite

above. Right bay with canted ground floor window and single

window above. 3 tall, ground floor windows in central bays, basket-arched windows above with gabled dormer heads.

Basement windows are segmental-headed. Sash windows

throughout: all single windows with hoodmoulds. Cornice.

Decorative finials to gables and dormerheads. Clustered

stacks and slate roof. Low extension to north has single

hood-moulded sash window and engaged octagonal angle pier

to left. Linked by modern covered passage to block to

south. Set behind low garden wall with square gatepiers.