Royal Tay Yacht Club, Fort William, 34 Dundee Road

The Royal Tay Yacht Club, located at 34 Dundee Road in Fort William, was designed by George Mathewson around 1838, with later alterations. This building is a two-storey gabled structure featuring single-storey piended-roofed projecting wings over a basement, designed in a classical style. The exterior is harled with painted margins and topped with a slate roof. It has margined angles and includes some original 12-pane sash and case windows, as well as other single and two-pane windows. The building features bracketed eaves at the central two-storey bay and faceted roofs on the flanking projecting bays. There are four vertically channelled stacks with moulded copes and identical octagonal cans on the long north-south walls of the central block.

On the south (main) elevation, the original three-bay building has a later extension to the right. The basement includes barred windows at the canted bays and a band course at the principal floor level. A central Ionic distyle loggia features decorative cast-ironwork and an open-work parapet, with windows in the flanking canted bays that have single and two-pane glazing. The deep eaves and facetted roof complement the French doors at the first floor, which are flanked by blind side lights leading to a Venetian-style window.

The west (entrance) elevation has an advanced piend-roof porch at the center, which includes a sash and case window and a door to the left, with flanking windows, one of which is blocked in the right wing.

The north (road) elevation features a projecting gabled center with two four-pane sash and case windows at the principal floor level and one 12-pane window at the first floor, along with one inserted window in the right wing.

Inside, the building has a central hall with paired Ionic columns to the east and west, and a coffered dome with an oculus. The stairs to the basement were resited and replaced in a compatible style during the 1980s.

Surrounding the property is a rubble enclosing wall with rounded coping to the north, hexagonal section panelled gatepiers with coved caps, and a retaining wall to the south that includes a doorway to the right and a stair leading down to the lawn. To the left, there is a single-storey flat-roofed addition that extends to the ground falling to the south, along with further walls to the east and west.