14 Ardbeg Road, Rothesay, Bute

Mid to later 19th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 5- by 4-bay gabled L-plan house converted for use as old people's home later 20th century. Whitewashed harl; yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised base course; overhanging eaves; timber bargeboards; polished ashlar strip quoins. Raised surrounds to chamfered openings; roll-moulded hoodmoulds at ground floor; projecting cills to ground and 1st floors; corniced ashlar canted window at ground to E. Linked outbuilding at rear.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay; gabled bay to outer left. Advanced stop-chamfered tripartite doorpiece centred at ground comprising replacement timber door; decorative engraved glass fanlight; full- height engraved glass side-lights; plain frieze; cast-iron brattishing above cornice. Single windows at ground flanking entrance; tapering finials surmounting gabled windows off-set to left and right of centre (breaking eaves at 1st floor). Bipartite window at ground in bay to outer left (ashlar mullion); hoodmoulded Tudor-arched window at 1st floor centred beneath apex. Blind single window at ground in bay to outer right.

E (ARDBEG ROAD) ELEVATION: 4-bay; gabled bays to outer left and right. Corniced 4-light canted window at ground in bay to outer left (ashlar mullions); smaller 4-light canted window centred beneath apex. Single windows at ground in 2 bays to right; gabled windows breaking eaves at 1st floor. Gabled wing in bay to outer right comprising single window at ground; Tudor-arched window at 1st floor centred beneath apex.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; replacement rainwater goods. Coped coursed sandstone ridge and wallhead stacks; various circular and octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: tripartite vestibule door comprising part-glazed timber panelled door (engraved glass); engraved side-lights; plate-glass fanlights; decorative tiled vestibule floor. Timber skirting boards; original cornice-work; ceiling roses; main stair comprising cast-iron uprights; timber balustrade.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION LINKED N OUTBUILDING: single window centred at 1st floor; single windows at ground in 2 bays to N; blind to S. Graded grey slate piend; replacement rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIER: rubble sandstone wall to Ardbeg Road; stop-chamfered square-plan pier to left; faceted pyramidal cap (pier to right missing).