| Bellevue Hotel | Cost: £12,000. Now in ruins following a fire
HOTEL, BELLE-VUE, DUNBAR - This building has just been erected at Dunbar. The hotel stands in about 2.5 acres of ground. Designed by Messrs Dunn and Findlay, architects, Edinburgh, the building, which has a frontage of 120 feet, is Scottish Baronial in style, the front being harled and faced with Dumfries stone. The main dining room, furnished in old oak, will be capable of accommodating about 100 persons, apart from a smaller dining room intended for day visitors particularly. A feature has also been made of the ladies drawing room, which is furnished in Chippendale. Apart from five or six separate suites of rooms, some of them on the ground floor, the house will contain fifty bedrooms. [Builder 5 June 1897 p516] |