53 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

John Duncan, dated 1877. Symmetrical 2-storey, 4-bay Alexander Thomson style double villa forming end of symmetrical terrace. Grouped 1-2-1 with single storey, single bay entrance porch recessed to outer left. Yellow sandstone ashlar; polished ashlar dressings. Raised base course; timber bracketed eaves to ground floor canted windows; raised, stepped eaves course; overhanging timber bracketed eaves. Square-headed windows at ground; chamfered reveals; keystoned and architraved surrounds to round-arched windows at 1st floor; pilastered sandstone mullions. Random rubble sandstone at sides and rear.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: cast-iron brattishing surmounting 3-light canted windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; bipartite windows aligned above; single square-headed windows at 1st floor off-set to left and right respectively. Bipartite windows at ground in 2 bays flanking centre; decorative cast-iron bracketed balcony above. Bipartite window centred at 1st floor; flanking single windows. Corniced side entrance to No 53; 2-leaf timber panelled door set in round-arched surround in recessed porch to outer left; plate-glass fanlight.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Graded grey slate roof; replacement rainwater goods. Corniced ridge and wallhead stacks; octagonal cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped random rubble wall to Mount Stuart Road; oval datestone set in segmental-arched surround at centre inscribed "Royal Terrace 1877", surmounting anthemion, flanking consoles. Square-plan gatepiers comprising raised base course, consoled broken pediments to each facet, armorial panels centred below, surmounting ball-finials; various cast-iron pedestrian entry gates.