Mallaranny Railway Hotel

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement hotel with dormer attic, designed 1895; built 1896-7; opened 1897, on a H-shaped plan including single-bay full-height gabled projecting end bays centred on three-bay two-storey gabled central block with three-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch to ground floor. "Improved", 1900. Damaged, 1922-3. Repaired, 1924. Sold, 1977. Closed, 1990. Derelict, 2002. Sold, 2003. "Restored", 2004-5. Replacement pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cement rendered central chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, thumbnail beaded red brick header bond coping to gables with pediments to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed exposed timber rafters with cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Replacement roughcast walls with red brick quoins to corners. Series of three round-headed central openings between red brick Running bond piers on red brick Running bond pedestals with red brick block-and-start archivolts centred on red brick keystones. Square-headed central door opening into hotel with slate flagged threshold, and rendered surround with red brick voussoirs framing replacement glazed timber door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with red brick header bond "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" sills, and rendered surrounds with red brick voussoirs framing replacement twelve-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with red brick header bond "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" sills, and rendered surrounds with red brick voussoirs centred on red brick keystones framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows replacing twelve-over-two (ground floor) or eight-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber panelled reveals to window openings; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled reveals to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds on an elevated site.