Gate Piers, The Rhodes, Bothwell Street

The Rhodes, Bothwell Street, comprises a house dated 1695, with extensions and alterations made in the mid-20th century. A further 20th-century two-bay addition was built into the sloping ground to the east, matching the existing height. The original house is a T-plan structure with crowstepped gables featuring beaked skewputts, while the addition is single-storey and attic. The exterior is harled, with painted ashlar dressings. The original section has architraved windows, and the upper floor of the extension also features this style.

The north elevation shows a projecting gable wing on the right side of the original house. A window is at first-floor level, and a single inserted window is at ground floor on the return, both partly obscured by a mid-20th century flat-roofed, part-glazed porch forming a re-entrant angle. The main body of the house is set back to the right and has an entrance within the porch, leading to an earlier 20th-century panelled timber door. There is a window in each bay at the first floor. Further to the left, a mid-20th century single-bay extension is supported on a pier, projecting at first-floor level into the short wing's re-entrant angle, with a window to the left and windows in each bay on the ground floor. A mid-20th century extension is set back on the outer left, featuring an entrance with a boarded timber door and a window above.

The south elevation displays the original five-bay section of the house on the left. Windows on the ground and first floors are regularly spaced across the first three bays. An entrance, with a modern two-leaf glazed timber door, is positioned between the first and second bays, and a small window, possibly a fire window, is located to the outer left on the ground floor. The right bays are largely obscured by a modern conservatory. An inserted or enlarged entrance is found within the penultimate bay of the original house, featuring a replacement glazed door with a rectangular fanlight. The lintel of the central first-floor window is carved with "W W E A," and "1695" is inscribed on the window to its right. There are windows on the ground and first floors to the right. Two modern, boxed dormers are located in the attic. The mid-20th century extension adjoins the right side, with windows in both bays on each floor. The ground floor window to the left has been substantially altered or inserted to create an entrance with a glazed door, while the attic windows are breaking-eaves dormers with catslide roofs.

The west elevation features a blank gable end. The north elevation has two attic windows set into the gable of the mid-20th century extension.

Most windows are timber sash and case, with two panes of glass. The roofs are grey slate, and there are corniced gablehead stacks at either end of the original block. A central ridge stack is also present, alongside a small, coped stack on the south side of the extension, all topped with round cans.

A pair of late-18th century, square-plan gate piers constructed from V-jointed sandstone ashlar mark the main carriage entrance on Bothwell Street. They have moulded cornices and later squared coping.