Tomintoul, Gordon Arms Hotel

The Gordon Arms Hotel probably dates to the late nineteenth century, and is one of the larger buildings in Tomintoul village.

The hotel is three storeys high, and is built with the coursed rubble frontage and slate roof common to many Tomintoul buildings. Photographs taken of the building in the 1970s showed it differing in one important way, however, in that the gables and other pediments were finished with wooden bargeboards instead of stone copes. An upper row of dormer windows shows where the attic was later utilised to provide extra accommodation.

The Gordon Arms Hotel is named after the Dukes of Gordon, who were important landowners in the area for many years.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project