Chapelhill Villa, Westland Road, Rothesay, Bute

Later 19th century; converted to flatted dwelling house 1908; alterations mid to later 20th century; entered at front and rear. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay castellated Gothic style former museum set on sloping site; 2-storey, single bay battlemented tower centred at front (entrance 1st floor flat). Tooled cherry cocked yellow sandstone to front; coursed, tooled yellow sandstone to sides and rear; lightly droved polished yellow sandstone margins. Droved base course; raised lintel course beneath overhanging eaves; corbelled parapet to tower. Droved strip quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to openings; flush cills. Pointed-arch bipartite windows set in tower (timber mullions). Single storey boarded timber lean-to addition centred at rear (entrance ground floor flat). Roofless, coursed stugged sandstone single storey, 4-bay outbuilding to rear; stugged long and short surrounds to openings; raised margins.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: projecting tower at centre comprising 2-leaf timber panelled door at ground; bipartite fanlight; chamfered door-surround; angular hoodmould with figurative label-stops. Single window at 1st floor; battlemented parapet corbelled out above. Single windows at both floors in re-entrant angles to left and right; single windows at ground recessed to outer left and right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: lean-to addition centred at ground; single windows in bays to outer left and right; regularly fenestrated at 1st floor.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window at ground off-set to left of centre; blind single windows at 1st floor in bays to outer left and right.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window at ground off-set to right of centre; narrow single window in bay to outer right.

Predominantly 6-pane timber sash and case windows; pointed-arch bipartite casements set in tower. Modern roof tiling; replacement rainwater goods. Coped sandstone ridge stack to S; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: adapted to form 2 separate flats; few original features. Decorative cast-iron uprights to stair set in tower to front; timber treads; exposed rubble walls.

OUTBUILDING, N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: door-opening at ground in bay to outer left and penultimate bay to outer right; single window openings in remaining bays.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND GATE: round-arched rubble coping to random rubble wall to Westland Road. Ball-finialed cast-iron gatepiers flanking pedestrian entrance to E elevation; cast-iron gate.