Hopetoun Arms Hotel, Leadhills

The Hopetoun Arms Hotel is a mid-19th century hunting lodge, originally built for the Hopetoun Estate and still partly used as such in 1990, and now also operating as a public bar. The building is an H-plan design with a service court at the rear, and it is two storeys and an attic in height. It is constructed of roughly squared rubble stone with contrasting ashlar dressings.

The west elevation is four bays, roughly symmetrical. The central bays are set back, with a gabled porch projecting at ground floor level to the right, containing a six-panelled door. A single-storey, piended, canted bay was added later to the left, and first-floor windows are set within gabled dormerheads that break the eaves. The two outer bays are advanced, forming a U-plan, with gable ends incorporating a window on each floor. The side elevations also have gables. Asymmetrical, single-storey service ranges are located at the rear. The windows are predominantly 12-pane sash and case. The eaves are bracketted, with plain barge boards, and there are king posts and finials to the gables. The ashlar stacks are shouldered and corniced, with slit vents defining the flues.

Inside, much of the original panelling, plasterwork and fireplace surrounds remain intact. The main staircase features barley-sugar cast-iron balusters.