27 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

This is a group of houses, dated 1868 and designed by John Orkney, forming a symmetrical, gabled terrace, originally intended as residential but later partially converted into a hotel. The building is located at 26 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute. The construction is of squared and snecked stugged sandstone, with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Notable features include a raised base course, an architraved string course, overhanging timber bracketed corniced eaves, and decorative timber bargeboarding within the gableheads. The quoins are stugged, and the polished window openings are set within stugged long and short surrounds. Window surrounds are architraved, chamfered and shouldered. The building incorporates full-height canted windows beneath splayed gableheads, with ground floor canted windows featuring angled, battlemented parapets. The front doors are predominantly two-leaf, timber-panelled, and the fanlights are of plate glass.

The north-west (entrance) elevation presents a 3-bay central block, with a ground floor door and a single window above. A glazed quatrefoil detail is located in the gable, though the collar-brace is missing. Three-light canted windows flank the entrance at ground level, with bipartite windows above. To the left of the centre are four bays with two ground floor doors and single first floor windows. Outer bays incorporate three-light canted windows at ground level, with tripartite windows above. Further to the left are four bays featuring ground floor doors, first floor windows and triangular attic windows. Gabled bays to the outer left and right have three-light canted windows at both floors, and chamfered slits in the apex. To the right of the centre, the Bayview Hotel section features two ground floor doors, single first floor windows, canted windows and a six-light box-dormer. Four bays to the extreme left contain a ground floor door set to the left, a window (formerly a door) set to the right, first floor windows, canted windows and triangular attic windows. A single attic window is centred in the apex.

The majority of windows are timber sash and case with two panes of glass, although some have been replaced. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with slate-hung box-dormers. Large corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal cans rise from the ridge and apex. The interior was not inspected in 1996.

Coped random rubble boundary walls are located between some properties and along Mountstuart Road, although they have been partially demolished. Octagonal, yellow ashlar gatepiers, with stepped bases and tiered octagonal caps, mark the boundaries. A square-plan pier on Fauldtrees Road has an architraved, round-arched cap inscribed "Wimbleton, 1868".