Cambus O'May Hotel Including Terraced Garden Walls And Gatepiers

Possibly George Truefitt, dated 1874. Well-detailed, 2-storey, U-plan, asymmetrical hotel built as fishing lodge and set in landscaped grounds with walled garden (LB50734), cottage (LB50727) and kennels to north (LB50731), and stable block to south (LB60733). Bull-faced, snecked pink and grey granite with Aberdeen bond; bull-faced margins and projecting cills. Incorporating piended tower-like porch with squat square-section piers to east, slated polygonal porch on decoratively-braced rustic columns to south, monumental shouldered and battered stacks rising from wallhead, and some 1st floor windows breaking eaves into gabled dormerheads. Crowstepped south gable, decorative voussoired windowheads appearing as relieving arches, stone mullions, timber transoms and mullions.

Further description: garden elevation to south with asymmetrically-fenestrated outer gabled bays, crowstepped bay off-centre right with rustic porch and large canted French window at ground, single window below semicircular relieving arch with incised date, and flanking bipartites at 1st floor. East and west wings form small courtyard at rear.

Plate glass glazing in timber casement and sash and case windows. Coped, shouldered ashlar stacks with full complement of polygonal cans. Red slates with decorative grey fish-scale bands. Finialled gableheads and scallop bargeboarding to south.

Interior: good decorative scheme in place. Reeded timber dado panelling to lobby with narrow shelves for fishing rods. Moulded cornices, timber fire surrounds and some timber-lined walls. Lounge bar with pine-log cladding. Part glazed 2-leaf screen door.

Terraced gardens walls: coped squared rubble terraced garden walls with steps flanked by ball-finialled dwarf walls to south and east.

Gatepiers: pair of coped and ball-finialled square-section bull-faced ashlar piers.