6-8 Bridgend Street, Rothesay, Bute

6-8 Bridgend Street is a two-storey, eight-bay terrace building constructed in 1908 by A M McKinlay. It is situated on a tapering site and features shops on the ground floor, with a former church hall on the first floor that has been converted into an auction room in the late 20th century. The building is characterized by raised pilasters that divide the bays on the first floor, and it is finished with whitewashed harl, red sandstone ashlar dressings, and coursed, natural-faced red sandstone at the ground level in the bay to the outer right, which is linked to an adjacent church. The shopfronts are corniced, and the eaves are overhanging with timber brackets. Windows have tabbed red ashlar surrounds.

On the southeast elevation, there is a two-leaf timber panelled door at ground level in the outer right bay, serving as the entrance to the auction room, which features a roll-moulded door surround and a segmental-arched lintel. To the left of centre, there is another timber panelled door, and a bipartite window is located in the penultimate bay to the outer left. The remaining bays on the ground floor contain shops, with the penultimate bay to the outer right (No 6) currently empty. The first floor has bipartite windows in the penultimate bay to the outer left and the outer left bay, while the other bays to the right have single windows.

The building features 8-pane upper and 2-pane lower timber sash and case windows, with modern glazing in the shops and various rooflights. The roof is covered with graded grey slate piends, and there are two corniced wallhead stacks on the southeast side and a single corniced wallhead stack on the south, along with various circular cans.

Inside, there is a stone stair leading to the first-floor auction room, supported by cast-iron uprights and a timber handrail with a timber ball-finialed newel. The interior includes part-leaded timber panelled doors, plate glass fanlights, and a Venetian-style window set in the north wall. There is a timber dado rail, a hammerbeam boarded timber roof with corbelled stops, and decorative ceiling vents. A former church flat to the south has been converted into a store.