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

Constructed around 1896 and opened by 1897, this former hotel may contain earlier fabric. It has two storeys and seven bays to its principal elevation in Moray Street. The gabled and corner-turreted first floor and roofline are particularly distinctive. There is a single storey and attic seven bay section (forming an L-plan) to Joiner's Close which is now known as the former caretaker's accommodation but was originally likely to be stabling and it has a hayloft opening to the attic. It is possible that this building may also contain earlier fabric. There is a single storey and attic, rectangular plan rubble and brick built warehouse attached to the rear which is excluded from the listing.

On the principal elevation of the hotel, there is a wide central, two-leaf timber panelled door with a heavy decorative finialled and bracketed cornice above. Above this there is an advanced tripartite gabled window with a tall slated pavilion roof with ornate iron cresting. The first floor windows are bipartite and tripartite and have decorative cills and bargeboarded gables which break the eaves. The walls are rendered and painted white. The band course, quoins and window surrounds are painted black. The outer bays have first floor octagonal corner turrets with conical roofs with decorative iron finials.

The windows to Moray Street are four-pane timber sash and case to the ground floor (now boarded up) and plate glass timber sash and case to the first floor. There are corniced and coped gable end chimney stacks with decorative clay cans and a ridge chimney stack off centre to the right. There are stone skews on the gable ends. There is a graded grey slate roof with bands of decorative fish scale slating to the corner turrets and the central pavilion roof.

The stables and hayloft to Joiner's Close has a piended and slated roof. Part of the interior of the ground floor public house occupies the ground floor space of this section. A cartshed opening is partially infilled with brick at the ground to form a large window opening. There is a hayloft opening on the first floor breaking the eaves.

The interior was seen in 2017. The ground floor of the hotel and former stables has been significantly altered. The first floor has also been altered and there are no particular features of interest.

The warehouse, attached to the rear of hotel and the east elevation of the former stables, dates from 1896. It is single storey with an attic and with a gabled and slated roof. The interior was converted in the later 20th century to form part of the hotel dining and kitchen facilities, accessed by a doorway. The exterior has been extensively altered, including large window openings.

In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: the warehouse to the rear and the interiors of the hotel and the former stables.