Cairngorm Hotel, Grampian Road, Aviemore

Probably later 19th century with early 20th century hotel extension. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay Highland estate style villa with tall 3-storey, 4-bay extension with 3-stage angle tower. Stugged ashlar with paler sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course and stepped dividing course. Segmental-headed doorway, some segmental-headed windows. Hoodmould; raked cills; chamfered arrises and stone mullions; timber transoms and mullions to stair window.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-storey block to left with broad gabled bay to right with door slapping at ground, bipartite window above and single window high up in gablehead; 3 symmetrical bays to left with modern porch to centre, flanking bays each with tall rectangular-plan tripartite window with glazed returns, cornice, deep blocking course and decorative cast-iron brattishing. 1st floor with single window to centre and bipartites to flanking bays all breaking eaves into dormerheads. 3-storey block to right with steps up to broad modern porch to ground left, stepped hoodmould to wide-centre tripartite in bay to right and tower (see below) to outer right. 1st floor with single window to centre flanked by bipartites and stepped course above giving way to 3 windows at 2nd floor, each breaking eaves into dormerhead.

NE TOWER: projecting angle tower with 3 windows to each stage, mutuled cornice and conical roof with decorative cast-iron weathervane.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: variety of elements to little altered elevation including lower bays to right with advanced centre gable and canted tripartite dormer window to outer right; tall jerkinhead-roofed bays with fire escape to outer left and regular fenestration to right return with mullioned stair windows in re-entrant.

N ELEVATION: largely masked by extension but retaining tall M-gable to left and gabled dormers to right.

S ELEVATION: single bay gabled elevation.

4-pane glazing pattern over plate glass lower sashes to E elevation of hotel extension, 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns elsewhere, all in timber sash and case windows. Leaded coloured

glass to stair windows. Grey slates, fishscale pattern to tower roof; modern rooflights. Coped ashlar stacks some with polygonal cans. Overhanging eaves; gables and dormerheads with decorative bargeboarding and decorative cast-iron finials to E; plain bargeboarding elsewhere. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: some decorative plasterwork; panelled dadoes; coloured glass to timber transomed and mullioned stair windows. Part-glazed 2-leaf screen door with flanking lights and full-width fanlight with coloured glass leading to hall with mutuled cornice and cantilevered dog-leg staircase with timber balusters and ball-finialled newel posts. Bar to W with timber fireplace and compartmented ceiling.