Elm House Hotel, 17 North Bridge Street

Elm House Hotel, located at 17 North Bridge Street, dates back to 1880. This two-storey and attic building features three bays and serves as the terminal block of a terrace. It has a central porch supported by Corinthian columns and a balustrade, with a canted bay to the right. The exterior showcases intricate stone carvings and shallow pedimented dormers. The front is constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar, while the sides are rendered, and the rear includes some tooled, coursed yellow sandstone.

Notable architectural details include a decoratively carved cornice at the ground floor, an arcaded eaves course that rises to a consoled cornice, and a pierced parapet that connects the left and central dormers, enclosing a balcony at the attic of the canted bay. The building features quoin strips, raised window margins, and tripartite stone-mullioned windows in the left bay at both the ground and first floors. The ground-floor windows are segmental-arched, with Corinthian-capitalled mullions in the canted right window. The first-floor windows have shouldered, roll-moulded margins and consoled cornices, while the rectangular dormers display shouldered, segmental-arched pediments. The central entrance consists of a six-panel timber front door flanked by narrow sidelights and topped with a tripartite rectangular fanlight. The roof is a platform style with a 20th-century flat-roofed extension connecting the dormers.

The windows are fitted with plate glass in timber sash and case frames, and the roof is covered with grey slate and features metal ridges, along with ashlar-coped skews and corniced ashlar gablehead stacks with octagonal buff clay cans.

Inside, the lobby has geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles and a half-glazed inner door with narrow sidelights and a tripartite rectangular fanlight. A stone stair leads to the central hall, which features square timber newels, a turned timber balustrade, and a polished timber handrail. The interior also includes some decorative cornices and ceiling roses, along with several four-panel timber doors.