34 Castle Street, Rothesay, Bute

Mid to later 19th century; converted to part residential, part office use. Classically-detailed 2-storey with basement and attic, 4-bay pedimented block with gabled single bay advanced to outer right. Harl-pointed tooled rubble sandstone; polished sandstone margins; strip quoins. Polished band course at principal floor; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Corniced windows at ground floor; pediment detailing at 1st floor; stone mullions to bipartites; projecting cills.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to ground floor entrance in penultimate bay to outer right; stone treads, decorative cast-iron balustrade; tripartite fanlight; pedimented door-surround (entrance office). Single window aligned at 1st floor; 3-light canted dormer above. Regularly fenestrated at both floors in 2 bays to left of entrance; small pediment centred in apex above; single windows at both floors in bay to outer left; 3-light canted dormer off-set to right. Advanced bay to outer right comprising bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors (pedimented at 1st floor); single attic window centred in apex.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows; replacement glazing to advanced bay to outer right; 2-pane timber sash and case windows to dormers. Graded grey slate roof; raised skews; replacement rainwater goods. Coped rendered apex stack to N; single circular can.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped rubble wall to Castle Street; replacement cast-iron railings. Square-plan polished sandstone piers flanking entrance; tiered pyramidal caps.