Victoria Bar, 105 Shore Street, Gourock

Early 19th century, possibly incorporating earlier fabric and with later alterations. 2-storey 5-bay (grouped 3-2) former coaching inn with stables courtyard to rear. Rendered and harled main block with rendered and exposed pink rubble to courtyard buildings. Rubble base course; rusticated quoins.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3-bay symmetrical block to left, architraved and hoodmoulded doorway to centre, single window at 1st floor and to each floor in flanking bays, 2 canted dormers with piended roofs. 2-bay block to right near contemporary with scrolled skewputts, 3 windows at

ground floor, 2 at 1st floor, dormer as above.

N ELEVATION: gabled with apex stack, single windows and secondary doorways.

S ELEVATION: as above with single windows.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: much altered, later brick additions encasing semi-circular stair tower. 4-pane timber sash and case windows to dormers, replacement windows to remaining building. Slate roof with metal flashings; tall coped apex (see above) and mutual stack.

INTERIOR OF BAR: Largely altered. Retains early 20th century timber U-plan bar counter with stone spittoon at base. Gantry replaced in 1993.

COURTYARD BUILDINGS: variety of outbuildings serving coaching inn forming U-plan open to N. 2-storey, 4-bay block to W, with apex stacks and graded slates. Single storey piend-roofed link to street front bar at S of group.