Craigmore Hotel, 48-49 Crichton Road, Rothesay, Bute

Late 19th century (circa 1870?). Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 5-bay hotel grouped 1-3-1; recessed at centre; full-height 5-light bowed towers centred in advanced gabled bays to outer left and right. Coursed stugged yellow sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; corniced bays at ground; timber bracketed eaves; decorative cast-iron brattishing surmounting corniced bows to outer left and right. Stugged yellow sandstone quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to openings; chamfered cills. Shouldered windows at ground; round-arched windows at 1st floor; cast-iron fluted Corinthian columned mullions. Later 20th century harled single storey lean-to porch spanning central bay at ground. Random rubble sandstone at rear and sides.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: lean-to porch comprising glazed 2-leaf timber door centred at ground; flanking bipartite windows; tripartite windows in bays to outer left and right. Quadripartite round-arched glazing row centred at 1st floor; quadripartite window above set in stylised round-arched Venetian attic window; brattished French-pavilion-roof behind. Single windows at 1st floor off-set to left and right of centre; oeil-de-beouf attic windows above. Advanced gabled bays to outer left and right comprising 5-light bowed windows at ground and 1st floors; bowed brattishing; tripartite shouldered attic windows centred in apex above.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to porch. Graded grey slate roof; fish-scale detailing to central French pavilion roof. Coped sandstone apex stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: adapted for use as hotel; various fire doors, false ceilings, internal divisions. Porch encloses cast-iron columnar-mullioned quadripartite glazing row; bracketed stair comprising timber uprights, timber handrail; some cornice work; ceiling rose in dining room.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped squared and snecked sandstone wall to Crichton Road.