14 Battery Place, Rothesay, Bute

Mid to later 19th century; flatted later 20th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style house forming near pair with adjacent No 15; projecting stair tower centred at rear (entrance No 14a). Whitewashed rubble; painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Pilastered quoins; painted sandstone mullions; projecting cills; pilastered entrance. Full-height canted bays to outer left and right; later single bay flat-roofed addition recessed to outer left (No 14a).

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single step to timber panelled door centred at ground; plate-glass fanlight; surrounding pilastered doorpiece comprising plain frieze, cornice, block pediment, raised keystone. Single window at 1st floor aligned above entrance; 3-light canted windows at ground and 1st floors in bays to outer left and right; 3-light slate-hung dormers above. Small single pedimented dormer at centre.

Replacement glazing throughout. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; corniced rendered apex stacks; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

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