Raemartin Hotel, Raemartin Square, West Linton

Raemartin Hotel, West Linton

The Raemartin Hotel is a substantial two-storey building with attic storey, located at the heart of West Linton village. It comprises two distinct phases of construction: an original four-bay coaching inn dated 1789, and a later four-bay extension added in 1879. The building is constructed of rubble with painted cement render and is topped with grey slate.

The principal south elevation reveals this two-phase development clearly. The 18th century section to the right features four irregularly spaced windows to the first floor with scrolled bracketed cornices above ground-floor openings at the second and fourth bays. Two canted dormers sit above. A moulded eaves course and base course complete this section. The 19th century extension to the left is distinguished by a corbelled octagonal timber-panelled and glazed corner turret with a weather-vane finial at the first-floor corner angle. This section has base and cill courses, predominantly bipartite windows, and a single oriel window to the first floor right. The main door sits at the far left beneath a pilastered surround, flanked by single-light windows, with a later door to the right. Above, two-light canted dormers flank a bipartite dormer at the centre. Truncated wallhead stacks with moulded bases sit between the bays.

The east elevation features a round-arched window to the attic and coped skews with roll-moulded skewputt to the corner. The west elevation is plain with a cant at the north-west angle.

Windows are predominantly four-pane timber sash and case throughout. Gable-end stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the external detail.

Internally, the 1879 section contains a principal ground-floor room with a subdivided coffer ceiling, ornamental cornice, and timber-panelled window soffits. A substantial timber fireplace sits to the north. The entrance vestibule displays an ornamental floor mosaic inscribed "Raemartin Hall". The 1789 section has been predominantly refurbished.

The building operated as a coaching inn serving the Edinburgh to Moffat coach road. The 1879 extension replaced an earlier stables range and was developed as a Temperance Hotel, remaining a popular stopping place into the 20th century. Early 20th century photographs show a 19th or early 20th century entrance inserted into the Main Street gable end with a porch and balustraded parapet. The building was undergoing subdivision as of 2010.