Former United Free Church, Rothesay, Bute

Duncan Dewar, 1911. Asymmetrical 2-storey with attic, 2-bay former United Free church with projecting Flemish-style tower to right; advanced gabled bay at centre; later single storey additions to S and E. Coursed, slightly bull-faced sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; corniced openings at ground and 1st floors; skewed gables; corniced eaves; overhanging bracketed eaves to square-plan tower. Raised ashlar quoins; long and short surrounds to openings; chamfered cills at ground to E; projecting cills to N; stone mullions; stained glazing. Harl-pointed random rubble sandstone to sides and rear; polished dressings; harled later additions.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to tripartite entrance centred at ground; part-glazed 2-leaf timber panelled door; flanking bipartite windows; architraved panel dated ?1911? centred above. 6-light glazing row aligned at 1st floor; ?Enter His Courts With Thanksgiving? embossed in architraved panel below; circular attic window centred in apex. Advanced tower off-set to right of centre; curved hoodmould surmounting single circular window at ground; tripartite window aligned at 1st floor; 4 louvred openings equally disposed beneath slightly bell-cast modillioned eaves. Bipartite window at ground in single storey addition recessed to outer right.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay with single storey additions to outer left. Corniced tripartite windows at ground and 1st floors in gabled bay to outer right; bipartite windows at ground in 4 bays to left; tripartite window set in single storey addition to outer left; flat-roofed, single storey addition beyond.

Predominantly stained leaded glazing. Graded grey slate roof; slate-hung piend surmounting tower; raised stone skews. Corniced apex stack to E; single circular can; coped central ridge stack (can missing); coped rendered wallhead stack to S addition; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped harl-pointed random rubble wall to High Street; cast iron railings.