Royal Gourock Yacht Club, Ashton Road, Gourock

The Royal Gourock Yacht Club, located on Ashton Road in Gourock, was designed by Stewart, Tough and Alexander in 1903, with later additions. This single-storey and attic yacht club features an asymmetrical Arts and Crafts style, built on sloping ground with a terrace overlooking the sea above the boat store. The building has a red brick base course and is finished with white harl and pink sandstone margins. It showcases overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and plain bargeboards.

On the south elevation facing Ashton Road, the building has four bays with windows of varying sizes and placements. The outer left bay features an advanced half-timbered gable, while the left of centre bay has a later flat-roofed entrance vestibule with a tall round-arched window above, which includes timber mullions and transoms that break the eaves in an ashlar-coped gablet. The outer right bay has a broad canted bay with a narrow tripartite window and an outlook terrace above, which is adorned with harled dies and iron railings.

The north elevation, which faces the sea, also has four bays. The outer left bay features an outlook terrace over a single-storey section, accessed from the south elevation on higher ground, with a corbelled timber viewing platform and a secondary metal stair leading to the main terrace. There are two-storey octagonal towers with ashlar transomed windows and ogival pyramidal roofs topped with weathervane finials in the second bay from the left and the outer right bay, with single windows at ground level in between. The bay to the right of centre has a replacement picture window at ground floor, and above it is a large, later, slightly projecting bowed dormer with a five-light window.

The west elevation includes a corner tower on the outer left and an advanced gable on the outer right, along with a small later addition. The east elevation features a transomed tripartite window.

The building has small pane timber casements on the south side and timber sash and case windows with six-pane upper sashes and plate glass lower sashes on the north side. The roof is slate, and there is a moulded eaves gutter.

Inside, as of 2012, the original room layout remains largely intact, showcasing good decorative timber work throughout. There is a decorative timber stair with tall square-plan balusters and timber panelled doors.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of cross-sectioned brick gatepiers with sandstone coping, accompanied by a low brick wall with saddleback coping, although portions of the wall to the west have been rebuilt.