36 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

36 Mountstuart Road is a double villa designed by John Orkney and dated 1875. This asymmetrical, two-storey, three-bay building is styled in the manner of Alexander Thomson and is part of a symmetrical terrace. The villa features a stepped gable that is recessed at the center, with advanced gables on the outer left and right sides. It is constructed from coursed cream sandstone ashlar with polished sandstone dressings. Notable architectural details include a raised base course, corniced openings at the ground floor in the outer bays, a raised string course, and overhanging timber eaves. The windows have sandstone pilaster mullions and chamfered cills, while the entrance to No 35 features a columnar doorpiece.

On the north elevation, there is a five-light glazing row at the ground level, offset to the left of center, with a modern two-leaf small-paned door set in an Ionic-columned doorpiece to the right. Above, a four-light glazing row is centered in a broken gable at the first floor, with a blind armorial panel beneath the apex. The outer right advanced gabled bay has a projecting five-light bow window at the ground floor and a three-light bow window at the first floor beneath the apex. The outer left advanced gabled bay features projecting five-light windows on both floors. There is a corniced side entrance to No 36.

The villa has two-pane timber sash and case windows and a grey slate roof, with replacement rainwater goods. The roof is adorned with coped and corniced ridge and wallhead stacks, predominantly featuring decorative circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1996. The boundary walls consist of a low coped random rubble wall along Mount Stuart Road, with a round-arched architraved datestone inscribed "Elysium 1875 JO" at the center. The property is also marked by square-plan, panelled sandstone piers topped with square caps and four corniced, round-arched pediments.