Former Kirklands Hotel, West Stewart Place

This is a former hotel, built in 1878, with an addition to the east corner in the early 20th century. It is a two-storey and attic villa, roughly L-shaped, situated on a raised site and exhibiting eclectic architectural details. The building features crowstepped gables, chevron detailing above the ground-floor openings, a parapet with a cast-iron railing and finials above the first-floor windows, a central pavilion-roofed tower with brattishing, and a single-storey extension with a roof terrace in the re-entrant angle at the east.

The principal, or southeast, elevation is constructed of carefully worked yellow sandstone ashlar, while the rest of the building uses a combination of tooled, squared, and snecked yellow sandstone. Ashlar dressings are used throughout. The main facade features a base course, eaves cornice, a moulded lintel cornice, frieze, and cornice around the east extension. Strips of quoins are also present. Windows are quadripartite, with colonette mullions in the bowed right bay; elsewhere, the window margins are stop-chamfered on the principal elevation, and raised cills are a feature of the side and rear elevations.

The main entrance has two stone steps leading to a nine-panel timber door with a rectangular fanlight within a roll-moulded, corniced architrave. A single light is positioned above the door at the first floor. A projecting, corbelled balcony sits at the second floor, while a bipartite, stone-mullioned window is located within the attic of the tower. Two-storey canted windows are present in the slightly recessed, gabled left bay, with an oculus at the attic. Two-storey bowed windows are found in the gabled right bay, also with an oculus at the attic. A single-storey extension extends to the outer right, incorporating a decorative cast-iron railing surrounding a first-floor terrace.

The southeast side elevation exhibits a single-storey extension to the left, featuring two semicircular stone steps leading to a shouldered, round-arched door with a fanlight in a rectangular architrave, flanked by narrow side lights. A blank gable is advanced to the right. The rear, or northwest, elevation displays an irregular arrangement of windows, including a tall, round-arched stair window in the centre, and a single-storey, gabled service wing projecting to the right. The southwest side elevation is also irregular, with crowstepped, platform gables.

Predominantly plate glass is used in timber sash-and-case windows, with four-pane glazing to the central first-floor front window. The roof is covered with grey slate, and metal ridges. Corniced ashlar stacks feature octagonal buff clay cans. Rainwater goods are predominantly plastic, although some decorative cast-iron hoppers are present.

The interior includes an entrance lobby with geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles and timber wall panelling. A half-glazed, timber-panelled inner door, with narrow side lights and a tripartite rectangular fanlight, provides access to the rest of the building.