Laundry, Rowmore, Pier Road, Rhu

This is a two-storey, four-bay villa, dated 1831, built in a Gothic style with Tudor detailing. The exterior is cream harling with sandstone dressings and margins, featuring chamfered reveals. A string course and eaves band run along the facade, topped by a moulded cornice.

The southwest elevation has four bays. A broad, gabled bay is positioned to the outer left, with a tripartite transomed and mullioned window at ground level and a tripartite window above. A reconstituted stone cross finial sits at the apex. To the right is a Gothic ashlar porch with an ogee arch, a scalloped parapet, a datestone inscribed "1831" below a central floral finial, and chamfered dies with ogee caps. A modern uPVC door and fanlight occupy the porch's interior. A narrower, slightly advanced gabled bay is to the right, joined to the remaining two bays on the outer right by an ornate, cast-iron balcony supported by slender, fluted cast-iron posts. Windows are symmetrically arranged in the gabled bay and on the first floor. A slate-hung dormer is also present. An advanced, modern gabled conservatory with a crested roof sits on a rendered base, concealing a French window and an additional window at ground level.

The northwest elevation features a timber canted oriel window, thought to date from around 1915, supported by moulded ashlar corbels to the outer right. A transomed and mullioned stair window is located to the outer left.

The northeast elevation displays windows to the right of the gable. A two-bay lean-to projection extends from the re-entrant angle between the main block and the northeast wing. A door is at ground level, with a bipartite window to the left and two symmetrically disposed windows above. A large, square, slate-hung dormer is also present. A wing to the left has two windows on the first floor, the right one being narrower, topped with a square, slate-hung dormer. A boarded door with a two-pane fanlight is located on the ground floor to the right, alongside a narrow window, followed by two symmetrically disposed windows to the outer left. A single-storey, piend-roofed block extends to the left, with a modern garage door on the northwest and a small boarded door with a two-pane fanlight on the right.

The windows throughout employ a variety of lying-pane glazing combinations within sash and case windows, and small-pane fixed and sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with ashlar, moulded coping to the skew blocks and angled skewblocks. The interior was not inspected in 1993.

A sandstone ashlar terrace balustrade bounds the west side of the house. It features square, coped sandstone ashlar dies with cast-iron whorls forming the balustrade, incorporating circular patterns linked by floral detail. The balustrade curves at the north side. Square sandstone gatepiers with cornices and raised, square caps, featuring stop-chamfered arrises, mark the entrance. Arrow-head railings are set upon an ashlar, coped plinth, curving to link to the outer piers. A two-leaf gate provides access.

To the northeast of the house stands a square-plan, piend-roofed block. It is harled with sandstone margins and dressings, and has chamfered arrises. An eaves band and quoin strips are present. Blocked doors and letterbox fanlights are visible. A corniced ridge stack with a cast-iron weather-vane stands in the centre. The building has four bays to the southwest with three doors and one window; two windows on the northwest elevation to the right; and two windows at the centre on the northeast elevation. The windows incorporate 4 over 6 lying-pane glazing.