Former Kirklands Hotel, West Stewart Place

1878, with earlier-20th-century addition to E corner. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, roughly L-plan, eclectically detailed villa on raised site, with crowstepped gables, chevron detailing above ground-floor openings, parapet with cast-iron railing and finials above 1st-floor windows, central pavilion-roofed tower with brattishing, and single-storey extension with roof terrace in re-entrant angle at E. Tooled yellow sandstone ashlar to principal elevation; tooled, squared, snecked yellow sandstone elsewhere; lightly droved ashlar dressings throughout. Base course; eaves cornice; moulded lintel cornice, frieze and cornice around both sides of E extension. Quoin strips. Quadripartite windows with colonette mullions to bowed right bay; stop-chamfered window margins elsewhere to principal elevation; raised cills to side and rear elevations.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Principal (SE) elevation: 2 stone steps to central, 9-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight in roll-moulded, corniced architrave; single light above at 1st floor; projecting corbelled balcony at 2nd floor; bipartite, stone-mullioned window at attic of tower. 2-storey canted windows to slightly recessed, gabled left bay with oculus at attic. 2-storey bowed windows to gabled right bay with oculus at attic. Single-storey extension to outer right with decorative cast-iron railing enclosing terrace at 1st floor. SE (side) elevation: single-storey extension to left with 2 semicircular stone steps to shouldered, round-arched door with fanlight in rectangular architrave with narrow side lights (see NOTES); blank gable advanced to right. Rear (NW) elevation: irregular fenestration, with tall, round-arched stair window to centre and single-storey, gabled service wing advanced to right (see NOTES). Irregular fenestration to crowstepped, platform-gabled SW (side) elevation.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows; 4-pane glazing to central 1st-floor front window. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal buff clay cans. Predominantly plastic rainwater goods with some decorative cast-iron hoppers.

INTERIOR: entrance lobby with geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles and timber wall panelling. Half-glazed, timber-panelled inner door with narrow side lights and tripartite rectangular fanlight.