Blackford Hotel including caretaker's accommodation to Joiner's Close, Moray Street, Blackford

Constructed around 1896 and opened by 1897, the Blackford Hotel with caretaker's accommodation to Joiner's Close, Moray Street, Blackford, may include earlier fabric. The hotel itself is two storeys and seven bays wide facing Moray Street, notable for its gabled form, corner turrets, and distinctive roofline. Attached to Joiner's Close is a single storey and attic section forming an "L" shape, originally likely stabling with a hayloft opening to the attic; this section now serves as caretaker's accommodation. A single-storey and attic, rectangular rubble and brick warehouse is attached to the rear and excluded from the listing.

The principal elevation to Moray Street features a wide, two-leaf timber panelled front door topped by a heavy decorative finialled cornice. Above the door is an advanced tripartite gabled window with a tall slated pavilion roof detailed with ornate iron cresting. First-floor windows are bipartite and tripartite, featuring decorative cills and bargeboarded gables that break the eaves. The walls are rendered and painted white, with black painted quoins, band course, and window surrounds. Octagonal corner turrets with conical roofs and decorative iron finials mark the outer bays.

The Moray Street windows are timber sash and case with four panes to the ground floor (now boarded up) and plate glass to the first floor. Corniced and coped gable end chimney stacks with decorative clay cans and a central ridge chimney stack are prominent. Stone skews are present on the gable ends, and the roof is graded grey slate with decorative fish scale slating on the corner turrets and central pavilion roof.

The section to Joiner's Close has a piended and slated roof. A cartshed opening at ground level is partially infilled with brick, creating a large window opening. A hayloft opening breaks the eaves on the first floor. Part of the ground floor interior, now used as a public house, originally formed part of the stables.

Internal inspection in 2017 revealed significant alterations to the ground floor of the hotel and former stables. First-floor interiors have also been altered and lack notable features.

The warehouse attached to the rear of the hotel and the east elevation of the former stables dates to 1896. It is single-storey with an attic and has a gabled and slated roof. Its interior was converted in the later 20th century into hotel dining and kitchen facilities, accessed by a doorway. The exterior has been extensively altered, including new window openings. The warehouse, the hotel’s interior spaces, and the interiors of the former stables are excluded from the listing.