Royal Hotel, 117-121 Quarry Street And 2-8 Duke Street, Hamilton

The Royal Hotel, located at 117-121 Quarry Street and 2-8 Duke Street in Hamilton, is a later 19th-century, three-storey Scots Baronial hotel situated on a corner site. The building features stugged coursers, with the first floor painted, and ashlar dressings, topped by a slate roof. The ground floor has modern shopfronts, while a string course runs along the first and second floors. The design includes a deep wallhead corbel table, which is interrupted by crowstepped gables and pedimented dormerheads. Windows are single and bipartite, with moulded jambs and plate glass sash and case frames, although some have modern replacements that do not match the original style. The wallhead is corniced, and the dormerheads are adorned with ball finials and alternate crescent moon and star symbols in their pediments, along with corniced stacks.

On the Quarry Street elevation, there is a doorpiece to the centre left featuring a moulded round-headed doorcase with half-columns that have foliate capitals. Above the door is a stepped moulding with a decorative panel, flanked by heraldic lions. To the right, there is a tripartite window with round-headed lights and capitalled half-columned mullions, topped by a stepped hoodmould. The left and right sides have modern shopfronts, while the first floor includes two single and five bipartite windows. The second floor has five dormerheaded windows, with the second bay from the left and the bay at the far right corbelled from the first floor, featuring a window and crowstepped gable.

On the Duke Street elevation, two bays to the left are partially collapsed, with part of the facade retained within a brick pentice-roofed consolidation. The centre has two bays, with two bipartite windows on the first floor and two dormerheaded windows on the second. An angled bay to the right has a window on the first floor and a second-floor window that is corbelled from the first, featuring a heraldic panel inscribed with 'BLESS GOD FOR ALL GIFTS' and a crowstepped gable. The interior has not been seen.