Royal Gourock Yacht Club, Ashton Road, Gourock

Stewart, Tough and Alexander, 1903, with later additions (see Notes). Single storey and attic asymmetrical Arts and Crafts yacht club built on falling ground with terrace over boat store facing sea. Red brick base course, white harl with pink sandstone margins. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; plain bargeboards.

S (ASHTON ROAD) ELEVATION: 4-bay with irregularly disposed and sized windows. Bay to outer left with advanced half-timbered gable. Bay to left of centre with later flat roofed entrance vestibule, tall round-arched window above with timber mullions and transoms breaking eaves in ashlar-coped gablet. To outer right broad canted bay with narrow tripartite window, outlook terrace above with harled dies and iron railings.

N (PRINCIPAL/SEA) ELEVATION: 4-bay. Outlook terrace over single storey bay to outer left, accessed on higher ground from S elevation, with corbelled timber viewing platform, secondary metal stair to main terrace. 2-storey octagonal towers with ashlar transomed windows and ogival pyramidal roofs with weathervane finials to 2nd bay from left and bay to outer right, flanked to centre by single windows at ground. Bay to right of centre with replacement picture window at ground floor; large, later, slightly projecting bowed dormer with 5-light window above.

W ELEVATION: corner tower to outer left (see above); advanced gable to outer right; small later addition.

E ELEVATION: transomed tripartite window.

Small pane timber casements to S, timber sash and case windows with 6-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes to N. Slate roof. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: (seen, 2012). Original room plan largely extant. Good decorative timber work throughout. Decorative timber stair with tall square-plan balusters. Timber panelled doors.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: cross-sectioned brick gatepiers with sandstone coping, low brick wall with saddleback coping (portions to W rebuilt).