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

Dated 1902. Classically-detailed, asymmetrical 4-storey tenement on corner site with shops at ground. 3-bay to Guildford Square (N); 3-bay to Watergate (E) and prominent full height stack to centre of Montague Street elevation. Whitewashed render horizontal channelling at ground; coursed red sandstone ashlar to upper floors; harled at side (W). Raised base course; raised string courses; architraved cills. Roll-moulded surrounds to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor windows in central bay to E; broken pediments surmounting 3- and 4-light canted bays.

N (MONTAGUE STREET) ELEVATION: shops at ground. Full-height projecting wallhead stack at centre; corniced and architraved plaque centred at 2nd floor inscribed "1902". 3-light canted windows to upper floors in bay to outer right; quadripartite canted windows to upper floors in corner bay to outer left both with broken pediment breaking wallhead.

E (WATERGATE) ELEVATION: replacement timber door recessed at ground in bay to outer left; 2-leaf timber panelled door set in architraved surround in bay to right; tripartite round-arched fanlight (blinded); boarded shop in bays to outer right. Single windows in central bay at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors; 3-light canted windows in bay to outer left.

4- and 6-pane upper, plate glass lower timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead stack to N (cans missing); coped rendered apex stack to W, circular cans.