8 Marine Place, Rothesay, Bute

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical style house; rectangular-plan with projection at rear; single storey lean-to conservatory to left; single storey rubble sandstone outbuilding (garage) recessed to right. Painted render. Raised base course; corniced string course; raised lintel course beneath overhanging eaves; projecting cills. Decorative cast-iron porch; cast-iron brattishing.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf part-glazed timber door centred at ground; plate-glass fanlight; surrounding porch comprising stylised cast-iron pilasters to left and right; cast-iron brattishing surmounting cornice spanning central bay. Single window centred at 1st floor; 3-light canted windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right.

Replacement glazing to all openings. Graded grey slate piended roof; cast-iron brattishing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

OUTBUILDING: shared with adjacent No 9; single garage entrance at ground off-set to left of centre; graded grey slate piend.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low coped part-rendered sandstone wall to Marine Place; painted square-plan, stop-chamfered piers to outer left and right; pyramidal caps; replacement cast-iron vehicular gates.