The Station Hotel, 1 Dovemount Place

1. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, symmetrical, gabled, platform-roofed former hotel on corner site, with Free Scots Renaissance and Baronial features. Tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; painted right section of side elevation. Base course; eaves cornice to principal elevation. Quoin strips. Painted margins to ground floor of principal (Dovemount Place) elevation; raised cills to side (Laing Terrace) elevation.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2 stone steps to central, 6-panel timber door with fanlight in round-arched architrave flanked by Doric pilasters supporting advanced, gabled bay above with hoodmould to deeply recessed, shouldered window architrave at 1st floor, pilasters flanking window in round-arched margin to gable, and twinned, octagonal gablehead stacks. Slightly advanced windows to outer bays, corniced at ground floor; gabled dormers breaking eaves cornice. 4 bays to gabled right part of side elevation: 2 stone steps to recessed door with rectangular fanlight to outer right; projecting, corbelled stacks flanking bipartite window in gable. 2-storey, asymmetric left part of side elevation: broad, 2-leaf, timber-boarded door to courtyard at left; 2 steps to timber-boarded door at centre; 3 evenly spaced gabled dormers breaking eaves to attic.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows, with plate glass to principal elevation and 4-pane glazing to side. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Moulded, ashlar-coped skews with scrolled skewputts. Corniced ashlar and brick stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods with hoppers dated 1871 to principal elevation.