Marionslea, Minister's Brae, Rothesay, Bute

Marionslea is a near-symmetrical, gabled, two-storey, three-bay house built in the Old English style around 1900 by William Hunter. It features a single-storey garage addition that is recessed to the outer left. The house is predominantly constructed of red brick, with raised brick quoins and raised brick long and short surrounds around the openings. The first floor has whitewashed harl and half-timbering, while the ground floor showcases roll-moulded detailing. Above the openings, there is red brick voussoir-arch detailing, and red brick mullions separate the glazing rows. The gables are topped with consoled terracotta tapering finials.

On the south elevation, there are painted steps leading to a recessed central entrance that includes a glazed timber panelled door. The entrance features an Arts and Crafts style letter-box embossed with "Hunter, Letters, Marionslea," stained-glass side-lights, a stained tripartite fanlight, and a mosaic-tiled vestibule with foliate detailing surrounding the name "Marionslea." An overhanging timber bracketed canopy provides shelter. A tripartite window is aligned above the entrance at the first floor. To the outer left, there is a four-light canted window at ground level, and above it, a quadripartite window is centered in the overhanging gable. On the outer right, there is an advanced bay with a quadripartite glazing row at ground level and a five-light glazing row centered in the gable above.

The windows predominantly feature opaque-glazed upper sections and plate-glass lower sections, with 12-pane timber casements centered at the first floor. The roof has complex graded grey slate gabled pitches and ornamental terracotta ridge-tiling. Corniced red brick stacks rise from the east and west sides, with various terracotta cans.

The interior was not seen in 1996. The property is enclosed by a low coped red brick boundary wall along Minister's Brae, complemented by a cast-iron balustrade. Flanking the pedestrian entrance are cast-iron gatepiers with tapering caps and ball-finials, along with a cast-iron gate. Additionally, there are corniced square-plan panelled red sandstone gatepiers to the outer left and right.