15 Craigmore Road, Rothesay, Bute

This is a mid to later 19th century house located in Rothesay, Bute. It’s a near-symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay structure with advanced gabled bays projecting to the outer left and right, and a gabled porch centrally positioned at the ground floor. The house is constructed of harl-pointed random rubble sandstone with raised, painted margins and painted strip quoins. A polished sandstone base course runs along the bottom, and overhanging timber eaves are topped with tapering timber finials on the gables. Stugged rubble sandstone quoins are evident, along with stugged long and short surrounds framing chamfered openings. A single-storey, whitewashed rubble sandstone building with an attic and two bays projects from the rear, alongside a single-storey, five-bay outbuilding.

The entrance, facing east, features steps leading to a replacement glazed door, topped with a plate-glass fanlight. The porch has timber pilasters and an architraved round arch with a modillioned apex. A single window sits above the entrance on the first floor, while other single windows appear in the slightly advanced bay to the outer left. A three-light canted window occupies the ground floor of the advanced bay to the outer right, featuring a decorative cast-iron parapet (with part missing), and a single window is centred in the apex of that bay on the first floor.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with lying-pane glass in the upper sashes and two panes in the lower. Some first-floor windows feature ten-pane lying-pane glazing. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with replacement rainwater goods. Coped apex stacks are present on the north and south sides, topped with various octagonal and circular cans.

Inside, the house features timber skirting boards, plaster cornice work, timber panelled doors, a decorative cast-iron balustraded staircase, and a timber handrail.

The outbuildings include a single opening at ground level in the outer left bay, with a boarded hayloft above. A garage, possibly a coach house, has an opening in the outer right bay. An adjoining building has boarded timber doors in the outer left and penultimate bays, a bipartite window in the penultimate bay to the left, and single windows in the remaining bays.

A circa 1910 Arts and Crafts style garage features two-leaf timber panelled doors with stained glass, a decorative King-post bargeboard to the front gable, and two stained glass windows to the side. The roof is shingled.

Boundary walls along Craigmore Road are constructed with round-arched rubble coping on harl-pointed rubble, with curved, whitewashed walls flanking the entrance. These walls incorporate stop-chamfered, whitewashed, square-plan piers with pyramidal caps; the gates are missing.