Sunlaws House Hotel

David Rhind of Edinburgh, architect 1853, restored and

enlarged by John Watherston of Edinburgh 1885-86 following

fire. Large asymetrical Scottish Jacobean mansion house, now

a hotel. 3 storeys, mostly mullioned and transomed

windows, some hood-moulded, advanced and recessed gabled

bays with finials or apex stacks. Stugged coursers, polished

dressings. North elevation: Tudor-arched door, hood-mould

raised over panel with crest above; projecting wide square

bay windows (4 and 5 lights) either side (2 storeys to left);

tall, slender 3-stage octagonal turret linked to main block

at right has upper lancets and open parapet (pinnacles

removed); low wing returns right, 2 walled open courts

behind. South elevation extended to west by Watherston and

arranged asymmetrically with single inner windows and

pedimented dormer heads, advanced outer gables, conservatory

at right (remodelled since 1885) with canted south end.

Corbelled oriel faces east; modern fire escape nearby.

String above ground floor; stacks with corniced octagonal

flues; slate roofs. Interior: some decorative carved

chimney pieces; that in stair hall is particularly fine

with elaborate Gothic ornament, traceried cusped panels,

crocketted ogival fireplace opening flanked by figures

in niches; some decorative ceiling plasterwork; library has

fitted book-shelves.

Square gatepiers; cast-iron gates with spiked rails; outer

piers ashlar with projecting caps, cast-iron inner piers

fluted, with cone finials.