1-4 Beatie Court, Battery Place, Rothesay, Bute

1-4 Beatie Court, Battery Place, Rothesay, Bute, was designed by John R Thomson in 1875. It was later converted into swimming baths in the earlier 20th century and then into flatted accommodation at the front with a warehouse at the rear in the later 20th century. The building is a symmetrical, single-storey structure with a basement and attic, originally conceived as a nine-bay aquarium in a neo-Classical style, arranged as 2-2-1-2-2 bays. It features a five-bay central section flanked by two-bay wings recessed to the outer left and right.

The building is constructed of yellow sandstone ashlar, with a rusticated basement and raised ashlar dressings. There is a raised base course, an eaves course beneath a corniced first floor, and a blocking course surmounting corniced attic eaves. Prominent ashlar quoins are present, along with raised blocks surrounding the round-arched ground floor openings, stylised block-corbels beneath the architraved cills, and a pedimented, columnar entrance.

The north-west (entrance) elevation incorporates a low, curved, corniced wall flanking a swept stair leading to a two-leaf, timber-panelled door centrally positioned at ground level. This door is within an architraved surround, flanked by pilasters and a raised keystone. A pedimented porch, featuring Corinthian pilasters to the left and right of the entrance and advanced Corinthian columns, adds to the facade's prominence, with a plain frieze and dentil detailing beneath the cornice. Single windows are found in all bays at ground level, with balustraded parapets recessed to the outer left and right, surmounted by urn-shaped corner finials. The five-bay central attic comprises a projecting blind bay to the centre, flanked by pilasters, and topped by a block pediment. Two single windows are offset to the left and right of the centre. At basement level, two-leaf, multi-paned patio doors flank the entrance, while tripartite windows fill the remaining bays to the outer left and right.

The north-east (side) elevation features a two-leaf boarded timber door, centrally positioned at ground level, within an architraved doorpiece featuring a raised keystone, and three blind windows above. A single-storey, two-bay block extends to the outer right, exhibiting round-arched, blind windows in both bays and a pilastered, balustraded parapet.

Predominantly nine-pane replacement timber windows are present throughout. A flat roof covers the front block, while the rear section has a corrugated-iron pitched roof.

A low, coped, tooled sandstone boundary wall runs along Battery Place, with square-plan piers flanking the entrance. These piers have ball finials surmounting an ashlar base to the outer left and right.