1,3,5,Montague Street, Rothesay, Bute

This building, located at 1, 3, and 5 Montague Street in Rothesay, Bute, dates back to 1902. It is a classically detailed, asymmetrical four-storey tenement situated on a corner site, featuring shops on the ground floor. The northern elevation facing Guildford Square has three bays, while the eastern elevation facing Watergate also has three bays, highlighted by a prominent full-height stack at the center of the Montague Street elevation.

The ground floor is finished with whitewashed render and horizontal channelling, while the upper floors are constructed from coursed red sandstone ashlar and harled on the western side. Architectural details include a raised base course, raised string courses, and architraved cills. The first, second, and third-floor windows in the central bay on the eastern side have roll-moulded surrounds, and there are broken pediments above the three- and four-light canted bays.

On the northern (Montague Street) elevation, the ground floor features shops, and there is a full-height projecting wallhead stack at the center. A corniced and architraved plaque inscribed "1902" is centered on the second floor. The outer right bay has three-light canted windows on the upper floors, while the outer left corner bay features quadripartite canted windows, both topped with broken pediments.

The eastern (Watergate) elevation includes a replacement timber door recessed in the outer left bay, and a two-leaf timber panelled door set in an architraved surround in the right bay, along with a tripartite round-arched fanlight that is blinded. The outer right bays contain a boarded shop. The central bay has single windows on the first, second, and third floors, while the outer left bay features three-light canted windows.

The building has four- and six-pane upper timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the lower sections. The roof is grey slate, featuring a corniced wallhead stack on the northern side (with missing cans) and a coped rendered apex stack on the western side, which has circular cans.