Agnes Patrick Steveonson Residential School, Asog, Bute

The Agnes Patrick Steveonson Residential School, built in 1900, is a substantial building on the Isle of Bute, converted into bed and breakfast accommodation in the late 20th century. It is an asymmetrical, two-storey and attic, four-bay structure designed in the English Tudor style, originally serving as a children’s home, with a slightly recessed, single-storey and attic, three-bay wing to the left and a single-storey, flat-roofed, single-bay addition to the outer left.

The building is constructed of squared and snecked, stugged red sandstone, with half-timbered gabled attic detailing. Polished sandstone dressings mark the quoins and surrounds to the ground and first-floor openings. Stone mullions are present, along with chamfered cills. The attic windows feature timber mullions, and the eaves overhang.

The front (east) elevation is dominated by the four-bay wing. A projecting tripartite window is located on the right, with a single window above. Bipartite windows are set in the other bays, with a consoled bracket supporting a projecting, half-timbered tripartite window above. A bipartite attic window is centered in the apex, flanked by single windows at ground and first floor levels. The recessed three-bay wing to the left features a canted four-light window, flanked by single windows, with a gabled bipartite window breaking the eaves above. A flat-roofed addition to the far left has a tripartite window.

The north (entrance) elevation has a timber panelled door with a replacement side-light, set within a roll-moulded, architraved surround. The words "Agnes Patrick Home 1900" are embossed above the entrance, and a tripartite window sits above at the first-floor level, with a single gabled dormer breaking the eaves.

Most windows are timber sash and case, with four panes at the top and two at the bottom. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with terracotta ridge detailing and replacement rainwater goods. Corniced red sandstone ashlar apex stacks are present, although the majority of cans are missing.

The interior has been adapted for holiday accommodation, featuring boarded timber dado, timber skirting boards, timber panelled doors, and new light fittings.

The site is enclosed by a harl-pointed rubble sandstone wall with round-arched rubble coping to the east. Chamfered polygonal gate piers flank the entrance, rising to raised plinths, octagonal cornices, and circular caps; the gates themselves are missing.