Victoria Hotel, 43-55 Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute

The Victoria Hotel, dating from the mid-19th century, is a three-storey, ten-bay hotel forming part of a terrace on Victoria Street, Rothesay, Bute. The hotel features French-pavilion roofs at its centre and outer left and right, with shops located at ground level. The first and second floors are rendered and painted, with raised painted margins accentuating the detailing. A raised base course is present, along with an architraved cornice at ground level and architraved cills at the second floor, finished with corniced eaves. The front elevation is symmetrical.

The main entrance, a two-leaf timber panel door, is off-centre to the right, with decorative floor tiling and a plaque bearing the name “Hotel Victoria” set within a consoled doorpiece with flanking columns and a plain frieze. There is a single shop at ground level in the two bays to the outer right, and four shops in the remaining bays to the left. Projecting windows are located at the first floor on the outer left and right, while the remaining bays on both the first and second floors have regular fenestration. The windows on the first floor have architraved surrounds, decorated with consoles at the centre, while the second-floor windows have simple architraved surrounds and stylized hoodmoulds above the shoulder-arched, pedimented dormers. Pedimented tripartite dormers are positioned at the centre, with single dormers to the two bays to the left and right of the centre, and bipartite dormers to the outer left and right. The central French-pavilion tower features an "oeil-de-beouf" window, with smaller towers flanking it, all topped with decorative cast-iron brattishing.

Decorative cast-iron lampstands are situated in front of the hotel entrance, featuring a splayed base, foliate detailing, round-arched pyramidal caps, and crown finials. A stone base supports a marble plaque inscribed "Hotel Victoria.”

Modern glazing is present at ground level. The majority of the windows are timber sash and case, with six-pane upper and plate-glass lower glazing in the projecting windows. The roof is a graded grey slate Mansard roof with fish-scale detailing to the towers. Corniced wallhead stacks flank the centre, along with octagonal cans, a corniced apex stack to the east, various circular cans, and a coped apex stack to the west; some cans are missing. The interior was not accessible for inspection in 1996.