Ascog Bank, Bute

Ascog Bank is a classically detailed, symmetrical two-storey, three-bay house designed by David Hamilton around 1833. It has a rectangular plan and features a slightly recessed center. The building is constructed of yellow sandstone ashlar with raised ashlar dressings, including a raised base course and banded ground floor rustication. The corniced eaves and balustraded parapet add to its architectural elegance.

The first floor is flanked by paired Ionic pilasters at the outer left and right bays. The ground floor has segmental-arched windows set in recessed surrounds with projecting cills, while the first floor features architraved square-headed windows with panelled cills and a columnar doorpiece. The sides of the house are finished with whitewashed harl, a raised base course, and polished surrounds to the openings, with segmental-arched windows on the ground floor and square-headed windows on the first floor.

On the entrance elevation, there is a cast-iron barley-sugar balustraded stone stair leading to a centrally located two-leaf timber panelled door, which is topped by a plate-glass fanlight. The projecting doorpiece consists of fluted Doric columns, a plain frieze, and a dentilled cornice. There is a single window aligned above the door on the first floor, with additional single windows in the outer left and right bays on both floors.

The north side elevation includes single windows at both floors in the center and outer right bays, while the outer left bay has blind openings on both floors. The front features two-pane timber sash and case windows, while the side has 12-pane timber sash and case glazing. A decorative stained glass stair window is located at the rear. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has replacement rainwater goods, with corniced ashlar stacks and octagonal cans.

Inside, the house boasts architraved and corniced surrounds to the timber panelled doors, timber skirting boards, decorative plaster cornices, plaster ceiling roses, and a foliate cast-iron balustraded stair with a timber handrail and treads.

The boundary walls consist of a round-arched rubble coping to a random rubble wall at the front. The south entrance is flanked by panelled square-plan painted piers with tapering caps and replacement cast-iron gates. To the north, there is a curved painted render wall with panelled square-plan piers flanking the entrance and additional square-plan piers to the outer left and right, also with replacement cast-iron gates.