23 Crichton Road, Rothesay, Bute

John Duncan, dated 1878. Symmetrical 2-storey, 8-bay Alexander Thomson style double villa forming end of symmetrical terrace. Grouped 2-4-2; advanced central gable. Coursed stugged sandstone; polished yellow sandstone dressings. Raised base course; timber bracketed canopies; bracketed 1st floor balconies; overhanging timber eaves (decorative fretwork to gable). Yellow sandstone quoins; long and short surrounds to openings; sandstone mullions; projecting cills; foliate stencil detailing above 1st floor windows.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled doors at ground in penultimate bays to outer left and right; bracketed canopies above; single windows at 1st floor. Single windows at ground in bays to outer right and left respectively; bipartite windows aligned at 1st floor; bracketed balconies below (missing at No 23). Advanced 4-bay centre comprising 2 4-light angled glazing rows at ground; timber balconies (part missing at No 24) beneath 4 single windows centred at 1st floor beneath gable.

Replacement glazing to No 23; 2-pane timber sash and case glazing to No 24. Graded grey slate roof; terracotta ridge tiling. Central ridge and apex stacks; octagonal cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped (part whitewashed) wall to Crichton Road; whitewashed, shouldered-arched datestone inscribed "Brighton Terrace 1878"; surmounting anthemion finial. Square-plan panelled gatepiers; triangular-faceted caps.