53 Ardbeg Road, Rothesay, Bute

Earlier to mid 19th century; later 20th century internal alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house entered at front and rear; full-height bowed stair tower centred at rear. Harl pointed rubble sandstone; painted margins; painted strip quoins. Raised base course; corniced eaves. Tooled rubble quoins; tooled long and short rubble surrounds to openings; projecting cills; painted pilastered doorpiece. Pitched harl-pointed rubble (whitewashed to front), single storey, single bay outbuilding to N.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber door centred at ground; quadripartite fanlight; corniced doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, plain frieze, block pediment, raised keystone. Regularly fenestrated at both floors in remaining bays; 3-light canted dormers in bays to outer left and right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: stair window centred in projecting tower at 1st floor; replacement doors at ground to N and S. Small single windows flanking tower at both floors in penultimate bay to outer right; single windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right; box-dormers aligned above.

Predominantly replacement glazing. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; slate-hung dormers. Corniced sandstone apex stack to S; coped rendered apex stack to N.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION OUTBUILDING: blind window centred beneath apex to E; corrugated-iron roof; raised skews.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS: low coped whitewashed rubble wall to Ardbeg Road; modern cast-iron pedestrian entry gate; whitewashed obelisk-style piers to outer left and right; pyramidal caps.