It is a Category B listed building built in the first half of the 19th century.

It was rebuilt, in ashlar stone, in 1892, on a grander scale, after a fire.

[1][2] A brick chimney to the east of the property served the laundry and the steam heating.

[2] The hotel, which has 121 bedrooms,[3] is known colloquially, especially amongst the older generation, as the Hydro.

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