PLANS to convert an historic hotel in Port Glasgow into flats and shops have been lodged with Inverclyde Council.

BR Homes Ltd have applied to change the use of the prominent Star Hotel on John Wood Street.

The Star Hotel, which closed in March of last year, has been a fixture of Port Glasgow's town centre since the 19th century.

In recent years it had operated as a bar and was used for filming on a number of occasions.

Back in 2005, the venue attracted the cast and crew for a movie called Nina's Heavenly Delights, by Greenock writer Andrea Gibb, about an Indian family in the 1980s.

The Telegraph snapped actor Art Malik, who also featured in Bond film The Living Daylights and True Lies, alongside Scottish comedian and actress Elaine C Smith.

Under the new proposals, the hotel's public bar and lounge bar on the ground floor would be turned into two retail units under the plan.

The upper floors would be converted into seven apartments.

The proposal is pending consideration by Inverclyde Council planners.