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

The Craigmore Hotel, located at 48-49 Crichton Road in Rothesay, Bute, is a late 19th-century building, dating from around 1870. This symmetrical hotel features two storeys with an attic and is designed with five bays arranged in a 1-3-1 configuration. The centre is recessed, and there are full-height five-light bowed towers in advanced gabled bays at the outer left and right.

The exterior is constructed from coursed stugged yellow sandstone, with polished sandstone dressings. It has a raised base course and corniced bays at the ground level, along with timber bracketed eaves. Decorative cast-iron brattishing tops the corniced bows on the outer sides. The building also features stugged yellow sandstone quoins and stugged long and short surrounds around the openings, with chamfered cills. The ground floor has shouldered windows, while the first floor has round-arched windows with cast-iron fluted Corinthian columned mullions. A later 20th-century harled single-storey lean-to porch spans the central bay at ground level, and the rear and sides are finished in random rubble sandstone.

On the north (entrance) elevation, the lean-to porch includes a centrally placed glazed two-leaf timber door at ground level, flanked by bipartite windows, with tripartite windows in the outer bays. Above, there is a quadripartite row of round-arched glazing at the first floor, with a quadripartite window above set in a stylised round-arched Venetian attic window, topped by a brattished French pavilion roof. Single windows at the first floor are offset to the left and right of centre, with oeil-de-beouf attic windows above. The advanced gabled bays on the outer sides feature five-light bowed windows on both the ground and first floors, with bowed brattishing and tripartite shouldered attic windows centred in the apex.

The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case, with modern glazing in the porch. The roof is graded grey slate with fish-scale detailing on the central French pavilion roof, and there are coped sandstone apex stacks with various circular cans.

Inside, the hotel has been adapted for its current use, featuring various fire doors, false ceilings, and internal divisions. The porch encloses a cast-iron columnar-mullioned quadripartite glazing row, and there is a bracketed stair with timber uprights and handrail, along with some cornice work and a ceiling rose in the dining room.

The boundary wall consists of a low coped squared and snecked sandstone wall along Crichton Road.