Gate Piers, The Rhodes, Bothwell Street

Dated 1695; extended/altered mid 20th century. 2-storey and attic; T-plan house with crowstepped gables (with beaked skewputts); single storey and attic; 20th century 2-bay addition built into sloping ground (to same height) to E. Harled exterior with painted ashlar dressings. Architraved windows to original section and upper floor of extension.

N ELEVATION: Gable end of short wing projects to right of centre to original house; window to 1st floor and one (inserted) to ground floor to right return, obscured by mid-20th century flat-roofed part-glazed porch to re-entrant. 2-bay section of main body set back to right; entrance to left (inside porch); earlier 20th century panelled timber door; window to each bay to 1st floor. 3-bay section of main body set back to left; mid-20th century single-bay extension (supported on pier) projects to 1st floor at left re-entrant of short wing; window set back to left; window to each bay to ground floor. Mid 20th century extension set back to outer left; entrance (with boarded timber door) to left of ground floor; window above to right.

S ELEVATION: original 5-bay section of house to left. Fairly regularly disposed windows to ground and 1st floors to 3 bays to left; entrance with modern 2-leaf glazed timber door between 1st and 2nd bays; small window (possibly fire window) to outer left of ground floor. Right bays obscured by modern conservatory at ground floor; inserted or enlarged entrance to penultimate bay to original house; replacement glazed door with rectangular fanlight; 'W W E A' carved on lintel of central window to 1st floor; '1695' on that to right; window to ground and 1st floor to right. Pair of modern boxed dormers to attic. Mid 20th century extension adjoins to right; window to both bays to each floor; that to left of ground floor has been substantially altered (or inserted) with entrance (with glazed door) to centre; those to attic are breaking-eaves dormers with catslide roofs.

W ELEVATION: blank gable end.

N ELEVATION: 2 attic windows to gable end of mid 20th century extension.

Mainly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs. Gablehead stacks to either end of original block; central ridge stack; all corniced; small coped stack to S side of extension; round cans.

GATEPIERS: pair of late 18th century; square-plan; V-jointed sandstone ashlar gatepiers to main carriage entrance on Bothwell Street; moulded cornices and later squared coping.