41 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

41 Mountstuart Road is a double villa designed by John Orkney, dated 1875, and is built in the Alexander Thomson style. This asymmetrical, two-storey building has three bays and is part of a symmetrical terrace. The central gable is recessed, while the outer gables on the left and right are advanced. The villa is constructed from coursed cream sandstone ashlar with polished sandstone dressings, featuring a raised base course and corniced openings at the ground level in the outer bays. There is a raised string course and overhanging timber eaves, with sandstone pilaster mullions and chamfered cills. The entrance to No 42 includes a columnar doorpiece.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is a five-light glazing row at the ground level, offset to the right of the center, with a timber panelled door set in an Ionic-columned doorpiece to the left. 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 left features a five-light bow window at the ground level and a three-light bow window at the first floor beneath the apex. The outer right has projecting five-light windows on both floors in the advanced gabled bay. There is a corniced side entrance to No 41.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the rainwater goods have been replaced. The building features coped and corniced ridge and wallhead stacks, predominantly with 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" (for John Orkney) at the center. Square-plan, panelled sandstone piers with square caps surmount four corniced, round-arched pediments.