15-16 Battery Place, Rothesay, Bute

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house forming near pair with adjacent No 14. Painted sandstone rubble; painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Narrow pilastered quoins; painted sandstone mullions; projecting cills; pilastered entrance. Full-height canted bays to outer left and right; flat-roofed addition adjoined to outer right (No 14a).

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps to recessed replacement door centred at ground; opaque-glass fanlight; pilastered doorpiece comprising plain frieze, cornice, block pediment, raised keystone. Single windows aligned above entrance at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at ground and 1st floors in bays to outer left and right; 3-light slate-hung dormers above. Small bipartite round-arched dormer at centre.

Modern glazing to dormers; 2-pane timber sash and case windows to remaining openings. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; coped apex stack to SW; corniced apex stack to NE; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped painted rubble wall to Battery Place, replacement timber pedestrian entry gate.