Council Offices, 7, 9 Mount Pleasant Road, Rothesay, Bute

Mid 19th century. Asymmetrical, 2-storey, 4-bay house; converted for office use earlier 20th century. Full-height advanced gabled bays to outer right and penultimate bay to outer left; projecting single storey gabled entrance porch. Cherry-cocked rubble sandstone; polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; corniced eaves; fleur-de-lys finials surmounting gables. Chamfered strip quoins; stugged yellow sandstone quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to architraved openings; chamfered cills. Later additions at rear.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled porch at ground off-set to left of centre; architraved Tudor-arch centred in apex; fleur-de-lys finial; 2-leaf glazed timber door set at angle within. Single windows at both floors in bay to outer left (hoodmould at ground); single windows at both floors in advanced bay to left of centre (hoodmould at 1st floor); blank armorial panel centred in apex. Single windows at both floors in recessed bay to right of centre; 3-light canted window at ground in bay to outer right; hoodmoulded single window at 1st floor; blank armorial panel centred in apex.

10-, 12-, 15- and 18-pane timber sash and case windows (some lying-panes). Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; replacement rainwater goods. Coped ridge stacks to left and right of centre; cans missing.

INTERIOR: adapted for office use. Some timber panelling.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-arched coping to random rubble wall to Mount Pleasant Road. Rectangular-plan piers flanking pedestrian entrance; pyramidal caps; replacement timber gate.