Grant Arms Hotel, The Square, Grantown-On-Spey is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
Grant Arms Hotel, The Square, Grantown-On-Spey
- WRENN ID
- north-gateway-fen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Grant Arms Hotel, The Square, Grantown-On-Spey, PH26 3HF
- OS grid reference
- NJ 033 279
- Coordinates
- 57.33173, -3.60633
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Grant Arms Hotel, located in The Square, Grantown-On-Spey, was built in 1875 with significant additions made between 1879 and 1890, incorporating an earlier building. This large hotel features two and three storeys with Scottish Baronial detailing, displaying twelve bays facing The Square and an additional three wide bays on the return gable. The exterior is constructed of tooled rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings.
The former central entrance, which was part of the seven-bay range built in 1875, has been converted into a window. The late 19th-century central entrance features a wide, shallow-headed doorpiece adorned with a central coat of arms. Notable architectural features include a second-floor oriel window in a crow-stepped gable, angle bartizans topped with bellcast conical roofs covered in fishscale slate, and gabled dormers that break the wallhead. The building has varied glazing, coped end and ridge stacks, and slate roofs.
Inside, there is little of architectural interest that survives.
Local climate
Grant Arms Hotel, The Square, Grantown-On-Spey sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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