The Moorings House Hotel, 114 Hamilton Road, Motherwell

The Moorings House Hotel is a large, two-storey house with an attic, built around 1870 and extended around 1900. It is an example of a Jacobethan villa, a style drawing inspiration from Elizabethan architecture. It has a rectangular plan and a prominent “M” shaped gable. The exterior is constructed from yellow ashlar sandstone, distinguished by a base course, a dividing band between the ground and first floors, and an eaves course. The gables are finished with coped details and ball finials. The windows are characterised by stone mullions and transoms.

The principal, or southeast, elevation features a slightly projecting double-gabled bay in the centre. A tiled staircase leads to a segmental archway over the front door, which has a lugged architrave and a carved panel displaying the Colville family arms, topped with a stopped hoodmould. A small, bipartite window sits to the left of the door. A bipartite window is positioned on the first floor of the right bay, while a tall, double-height window illuminates the hall to the left. A small bipartite window is flanked by a pilaster supporting a semicircular pediment to the gablehead, and a statue of a unicorn bearing the Colville arms adorns the apex. Narrow windows are visible on the left return. The fenestration is arranged regularly in the flanking bays. A full-height canted bay with a strapwork parapet is slightly advanced on the outer right.

The northwest elevation includes a single-storey and attic service wing from the early 20th century on the left, with later additions to the right.

The southwest elevation shows a slightly projecting gabled bay on the left, featuring tripartite windows on both ground and first floors. A small bipartite window sits in the gablehead, flanked by carved panels, topped with a spur finial. A blind bay is centrally located, with a battered wallhead stack. An angled, gabled bay juts out from the outer right corner, with tripartite windows and single windows to the returns of the first and second floors. The Colville arms are displayed on the gablehead, and a consoled column breaks through the eaves, culminating in a semicircular arched cap at the apex.

The northeast elevation features a gabled bay on the left; an advanced, canted "chiny" breast displays a framed panel of a Viking ship in the centre, with small inglenook windows in the returns. The wall is battered to the first floor and at the gablehead, with small flanking windows and a coped stack at the apex. A gabled bay is on the right, with a window to the ground floor of the left bay, two windows to the first floor, two small windows to the gablehead, and a coped stack at the apex. A single-storey plus attic cottage is on the outer right, with a central door and regular fenestration, including piended dormers that break through the eaves.

The windows have been replaced with modern double-glazed units. The roof is covered in grey slates, and has pantile crested roof ridges. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted with decorative brackets. The interior was not inspected in 2001.