26 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

John Orkney, dated 1868. 2-storey with attic, 2- and 3-bay houses (converted to hotel in part) forming symmetrical, gabled terrace grouped 2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2. Squared and snecked stugged sandstone; yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised base course; architraved string course; overhanging timber bracketed corniced eaves; decorative timber bargeboarding set in gableheads. Stugged quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to polished openings. Architraved, chamfered and shouldered window surrounds; full-height canted windows beneath splayed gableheads; ground floor canted windows with angled, battlemented parapets. Predominantly 2-leaf timber panelled doors; plate glass fanlights.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay central block (No 23) comprising door at ground; single window above; glazed quatrefoil detail centred in gable (collar-brace missing); 3-light canted windows at ground flanking entrance; bipartite windows aligned above. 4 bays to left of centre (Nos 24 & 25) comprising 2 doors centred at ground; single windows aligned at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; tripartite windows at 1st floor; 4 triangular attic windows disposed equally above. 4 bays to outer left (Nos 26 & 27) comprising 2 doors centred at ground; single windows aligned at 1st floor; triangular attic windows; 3-light canted windows at both floors centred in gabled bays to outer left and right; chamfered slits centred in apex. 4 bays to right of centre (Bayview Hotel) comprising 2 doors centred at ground; single windows aligned at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; tripartite windows at 1st floor; 6-light box-dormer above. 4 bays to outer left (Nos 19 and 20) comprising door at ground off-set to left of centre; single window (converted from door) off-set to right; single windows aligned at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at both floors centred in gabled bays to outer left and right (collar-brace missing); single attic windows centred in apex.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows; some replacement glazing; rooflights. Graded grey slate roof; slate-hung box-dormers; large corniced ridge and apex ashlar stacks, octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped random rubble walls between some properties and to Mount Stuart Road (demolished in part); octagonal yellow ashlar gatepiers, stepped base, tiered octagonal caps. Square-plan pier to Fauldtrees Road with architraved round-arched cap inscribed "Wimbleton, 1868".