39 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

37 Mountstuart Road is a villa designed by John Orkney, dated 1875, and is a near-symmetrical, two-storey building with an attic. It features a seven-bay design in the style of Alexander Thomson and is situated in the center of a symmetrical terrace, having been converted for hotel use. The layout is grouped as 1-1-3-1-1, with the central, outer left, and outer right sections advanced, and gabled outer bays. The exterior is constructed from coursed sandstone ashlar with polished sandstone dressings, featuring a raised base course, an architraved string course, and sandstone corbels beneath decorative balustrades that surmount the central entrances and the canted bay on the outer left. The eaves are overhanging timber.

On the north elevation, there is a replacement window centered at ground level, with a 4-light canted window aligned at the first floor and a 3-light canted dormer above. The entrance consists of two-leaf timber panelled doors set in round-arched surrounds in the bays flanking the center, with plate-glass fanlights above. The balustraded parapets surmount the doorpieces, and there are single windows at the first floor and single attic windows above. The penultimate bays to the outer left and right have 4-light glazing rows at ground level, with bipartite windows aligned at the first floor and bipartite dormers above, gabled to the left. The advanced, gabled bays to the outer left and right feature 4-light canted windows at ground level, with a 4-light canted window at the first floor in the outer right bay and a canted attic window beneath the apex. There is also a flush tripartite window at the first floor in the outer left bay and a round-arched attic window beneath the apex.

The windows are predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case, with some replacement glazing at ground level. The roof is covered in grey slate, with replacement rainwater goods, and features coped ridge and wallhead stacks, predominantly with decorative circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1996.

The boundary walls consist of a low coped random rubble wall along Mount Stuart Road, featuring a round-arched architraved datestone inscribed "Elysium 1875 JO" (for John Orkney) at the center. The entrance is marked by square-plan, panelled sandstone piers topped with square caps and four corniced, round-arched pediments.