Old Craigmore House, 22 Craigmore Road, Rothesay, Bute

Old Craigmore House is a mid-19th century, asymmetrical two-storey house with a near U-plan and Jacobean detailing, located at 22 Craigmore Road in Rothesay, Bute. The house features painted harl with painted margins and stop-chamfered strip quoins. It has a painted plinth, corniced eaves, and skewed gables. The openings have chamfered surrounds, architraved hoodmoulds, and projecting cills. In the grounds to the north, there is an octagonal-plan yellow ashlar sundial dated 1827.

The entrance elevation has a skew-gabled porch at the ground level, positioned across the re-entrant angle in the penultimate bay to the outer left. This porch features a scrolled finial and an inverted shouldered-arch surround centered below. The timber panelled door facing east is within this surround and has a bipartite fanlight above. To the outer left, there is an architraved hoodmould above a single window at ground level, and two round-arched slit-openings centered in the apex at the first floor. The remaining bays to the right include advanced single and two-storey gabled wings, with a single window at both ground and first floors beneath the finialed gable in the penultimate bay to the outer right, and single windows at ground level in the flanking finialed bays.

The east side elevation features a three-light corniced canted window at ground level in the outer left bay, with a balustraded balcony above. There is an architraved hoodmould above a single window centered in the apex at the first floor. A single window is located at ground level in a slightly advanced bay to the outer right, with a gabled single window breaking the eaves above, also topped with a scrolled finial.

Both elevations have lying-pane glazing and graded grey slate roofs with raised skews. Some original cast-iron rainwater goods are present. The stop-chamfered apex stacks to the north and south each have four square-plan flues and octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996.

The sundial in the grounds is an octagonal-plan structure made of yellow ashlar, featuring a splayed capital, square cap, engraved circular dial, and angular pointer.

The boundary wall along Craigmore Road is made of random rubble with round-arched coping. It has stop-chamfered whitewashed square-plan piers flanking the entrance, which include inset shouldered-arched panels, a cornice, square caps, and a replacement cast-iron vehicular access gate.