49 Mountstuart Road, Rothesay, Bute

John Duncan, dated 1877. Symmetrical 2-storey, 8-bay Alexander Thomson style double villa forming centre of symmetrical terrace. Grouped 2-1-2-1-2; advanced at centre; pedimented bays recessed to outer left and right. Yellow sandstone ashlar; polished ashlar dressings. Raised base course; architraved cill courses; raised eaves course beneath overhanging bracketed eaves; anthemion parapet detailing at centre. Raised quoins; square-headed chamfered openings; corniced surrounds to ground floor windows in bays to outer left and right; pilaster reveals and mullions at 1st floor; corbelled cills; columnar entrance porches. Random rubble sandstone at sides and rear.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single windows at both floors in advanced bays at centre; ?JD? (John Duncan) embossed in central armorial panel; single oeil-de-beouf attic windows; decorative cast-iron brattishing surmounting French-pavilion roof. 2-light canted windows at ground in bays flanking centre; 3-light canted windows aligned at 1st floor. 2-leaf timber panelled doors set in round-arched surrounds recessed at ground in penultimate bays to outer right and left respectively; balustraded square-plan columnar porches to front; single windows aligned at 1st floor. Bipartite windows at both floors in bays to outer right and left. Gabled bipartite dormer to No 49.

2-pane timber sash and case glazing. Graded grey slate roof; replacement rainwater goods. Corniced wallhead stacks; various decorative cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped random rubble wall to Mount Stuart Road; oval datestone set in segmental-arched surround at centre inscribed "Royal Terrace 1877", surmounting anthemion, flanking consoles. Square-plan gatepiers comprising raised base course, consoled broken pediments to each facet, armorial panels centred below, surmounting ball-finials; various cast-iron pedestrian entry gates.