6-8 Bridgend Street, Rothesay, Bute

A M McKinlay, 1908. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 8-bay terrace on tapering site with shops at ground; former church hall at 1st floor (converted for use as auction room late 20th century); raised pilasters dividing bays at 1st floor. Whitewashed harl; red sandstone ashlar dressings; coursed, natural-faced red sandstone at ground in bay to outer right (linked to adjacent church). Corniced shopfronts; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Tabbed red ashlar surrounds to windows.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground in bay to outer right (entrance auction room); roll-moulded door-surround; segmental-arched lintel. Timber panelled door at ground off-set to left of centre; bipartite window in penultimate bay to outer left; shops in remaining bays at ground (empty in penultimate bay to outer right, No 6). Bipartite windows at 1st floor in penultimate bay to outer left and bay to outer left; single windows in remaining bays to right.

8-pane upper, 2-pane lower timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to shops; various rooflights. Graded grey slate piends; 2 corniced wallhead stacks to SE; single corniced wallhead stack to S; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: stone stair to 1st floor auction room; cast-iron uprights; timber handrail; timber ball-finialed newel. Part-leaded timber panelled internal doors; plate glass fanlights; Venetian-style window set in N wall; timber dado rail; hammerbeam boarded timber roof; corbelled stops; decorative ceiling vents. Former church flat to S (now store).