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Attached five-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1880, having two-storey return and two-storey extension the rear (west). Formerly in use as a hotel and as a drapery shop, and now also in use as a holiday rental property. Pitched natural slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks with flat copings to the gable ends (north and south), some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with projecting rendered eaves course to the front elevation (east). Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth, and with raised smooth rendered block quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, one-over-one-pane timber sliding sash windows, and with stucco architraved surrounds to the ground floor openings. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation (east) having timber panelled double-doors with bolection mouldings, stucco architraved surround, and with overlight with modern etched glass reading ‘GATSBY HOUSE’; flight of granite steps to entrance. Road-fronted on sloping site to the north of the centre of Ardara. Yard to the rear having single-storey outbuildings with modern thatched roofs.
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