Pine Trees Hotel, Strathview Terrace

The Pine Trees Hotel, located on Strathview Terrace, is a mock-Tudor mansion house constructed in 1892 by Andrew Grainger Heiton. Subsequent alterations include interior work by Watson and Salmond in 1914, a bedroom wing added by Gordon and Scrymegour of Dundee between 1937 and 1938, and further additions in the 1950s and later. The building is two storeys and an attic, with a rectangular plan and an enclosed centre courtyard. It was owned from 1911 to 1923 by Yervant Hagog Iskender, founder of the 'Citizens of the World Movement', and currently operates as a hotel.

The exterior is characterized by jettied half-timbered sections, Dutch-style crowstepped gables (one with a balcony), canted bays corbelled to square at the first floor level, and timber tracery. A porch features groin vaulting, and the building displays fine, largely unaltered interior details. The walls are primarily constructed from whitewashed red Dumfriesshire sandstone with stugged and droved margins, with the 1938 wing utilizing brick and cement render with a stugged finish.

The entrance elevation, facing southeast, has six bays and includes a gabled porch with a broad, segmental-headed doorway. The garden elevation, facing southwest, features crowstepped gables in the centre and outer left angle, alongside a single-storey, flat-roofed extension that extends around the corner to the northwest.

Most windows follow a nine-pane glazing pattern over plate glass, contained within timber sash and case and casement frames. Decorative coloured and leaded glass is used in the porch and stair windows, while two windows on the southwest side feature figurative coloured glazing and the wording 'Per Mare/Per Terras' and 'Macdonald'. The roof covering is grey slates, and the building has banded, coped, whitewashed stacks, with some incorporating decorative cans. Deeply overhanging eaves and plain bargeboarding are present, along with cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

The interior retains a fine period decorative scheme, with much restored in 1999. Features include decorative plasterwork, architraved doors, brass door furniture, and sash lifts. The porch has a tessellated floor and timber groin vaulting. The main hall showcases timber-panelled dadoes, corniced doorways, a mutuled cornice, a segmental-arched stone fireplace with a carved chimney piece (restored in 1999), and original cast iron radiators beneath a window seat. A bar, formerly a smoking room, features a strapwork ceiling. The dining room exhibits classical detailing, including two carved marble fireplaces, decorative ironwork firebacks, plasterwork overmantels, ceiling roses, and cornices, with a cartouche at each angle. A cantilevered marble staircase has a classically-detailed, heavy cast iron balustrade and a brass handrail. A semicircular bay with a wide landing, coombed ceiling, and broad basket-arched openings is incorporated into the staircase. The first-floor Molyneux Suite also features two carved marble fireplaces, classical plasterwork detail with putti and heavy flanking swags over a round-arched alcove to room 3.