5 Bishop Terrace, Rothesay, Bute

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical single storey with basement and attic, 3-bay simple classical style house forming near pair with adjacent No 4. Coursed stugged sandstone; painted sandstone dressings. Raised band course at principal floor; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Painted quoins; painted long and short surrounds to openings; stepped hoodmoulds above ground floor windows; projecting cills. Coursed sandstone double-forestair; pilastered entrance.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: double-forestair comprising decorative cast-iron uprights, cast-iron handrail to advanced gabled doorpiece at centre; recessed replacement door centred within; plate-glass fanlight; flanking Doric pilasters, plain frieze, block pediment, raised keystone. Single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; 3-light canted dormers aligned above. Small rectangular windows at basement in bays to outer left and right.

Predominantly replacement timber glazing; uPVC glazing to dormers. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; rendered apex stacks to NE and SW; cans missing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-arched coping to coursed stugged sandstone wall to Bishop terrace. Paired whitewashed panelled square-plan piers flanking pedestrian and vehicular entrances; pyramidal caps.