Old Craigmore House, 22 Craigmore Road, Rothesay, Bute

Mid 19th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 5- by 2-bay near U-plan gabled house with Jacobean detailing. Painted harl; painted margins; painted, stop-chamfered strip quoins. Painted plinth; corniced eaves; skewed gables. Chamfered surrounds to openings; architraved hoodmoulds; projecting cills. Octagonal-plan yellow ashlar sundial set in grounds to N.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: skew-gabled entrance porch at ground across re-entrant angle in penultimate bay to outer left; scrolled finial; inverted shouldered-arch surround centred below; inverted shouldered-arch surround to timber panelled door facing E within; bipartite fanlight. Architraved hoodmould surmounting single window at ground in bay to outer left; 2 round-arched slit-openings centred in apex at 1st floor. Advanced single and 2-storey gabled wings in remaining bays to right; single windows at ground and 1st floor beneath finialed gable in penultimate bay to outer right; single windows at ground in flanking finialed bays.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-light corniced canted window at ground in bay to outer left; balustraded balcony above; architraved hoodmould surmounting single window centred in apex at 1st floor. Single window at ground in slightly advanced bay to outer right; gabled single window breaking eaves above; scrolled finial.

Lying-pane glazing to both elevations. Graded grey slate pitches; raised skews; some original cast-iron rainwater goods. Stop-chamfered apex stacks to N and S each comprising 4 square-plan flues; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

SUNDIAL: yellow ashlar octagonal-plan sundial dated 1827; splayed capital; square cap; engraved circular dial; angular pointer.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-arched rubble coping to random rubble wall to Craigmore Road. Stop-chamfered whitewashed square-plan piers flanking entrance; inset shouldered-arched panels; cornice; square caps; replacement cast-iron vehicular access gate.