39-41 Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute

39-41 Victoria Street is a corner tenement building from the earlier to mid 19th century, designed in a plain classical style. It has a near-square plan and stands three stories tall, with shops on the ground floor. The building features a three-bay facade facing Victoria Street to the north and a two-bay facade on Tower Street to the east, with a bowed corner.

The shopfronts include polished granite to the right of center, complete with a granite plinth and decorative mosaic floor detailing. To the left of center, there is painted render with decorative mosaic detailing inset in the base course, topped by a heavy cornice. The upper floors are finished in painted render, with a raised cill course beneath the first-floor windows and a lintel course beneath the corniced eaves. The Victoria Street elevation has architraved rectangular-panel detailing between the upper floors. The upper floors on Tower Street are made of painted rubble sandstone, featuring raised margins and projecting cills.

On the north elevation (Victoria Street), there is a replacement timber panelled door at the center of the ground floor (No 41), with a quadripartite fanlight above it. To the right of center, a shop features a recessed glazed and timber panelled door, a plate-glass fanlight, flanking mirrors, and a mosaic floor detailing inscribed "chemist," along with large flanking windows. There is also a shop to the left of center (No 39). The first and second floors are regularly fenestrated in all bays. The outer left has a slightly recessed full-height bow with a recessed part-glazed timber door at ground level, an architraved fanlight, foliate mosaic floor detailing, and glass-enclosed columns that support an overhanging porch corbelled out to the first floor, with single windows on the first and second floors.

The east elevation (Tower Street) also has a shop at ground level and is regularly fenestrated in both bays on the first and second floors.

The building predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, although some replacement glazing can be found on Victoria Street. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a corniced wallhead stack to the north, along with circular cans. The interior was not seen in 1996.