Description

Mid to later 19th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 5- by 4-bay gabled L-plan house converted for use as old people's home later 20th century. Whitewashed harl; yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Raised base course; overhanging eaves; timber bargeboards; polished ashlar strip quoins. Raised surrounds to chamfered openings; roll-moulded hoodmoulds at ground floor; projecting cills to ground and 1st floors; corniced ashlar canted window at ground to E. Linked outbuilding at rear.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay; gabled bay to outer left. Advanced stop-chamfered tripartite doorpiece centred at ground comprising replacement timber door; decorative engraved glass fanlight; full- height engraved glass side-lights; plain frieze; cast-iron brattishing above cornice. Single windows at ground flanking entrance; tapering finials surmounting gabled windows off-set to left and right of centre (breaking eaves at 1st floor). Bipartite window at ground in bay to outer left (ashlar mullion); hoodmoulded Tudor-arched window at 1st floor centred beneath apex. Blind single window at ground in bay to outer right.

E (ARDBEG ROAD) ELEVATION: 4-bay; gabled bays to outer left and right. Corniced 4-light canted window at ground in bay to outer left (ashlar mullions); smaller 4-light canted window centred beneath apex. Single windows at ground in 2 bays to right; gabled windows breaking eaves at 1st floor. Gabled wing in bay to outer right comprising single window at ground; Tudor-arched window at 1st floor centred beneath apex.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof; replacement rainwater goods. Coped coursed sandstone ridge and wallhead stacks; various circular and octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: tripartite vestibule door comprising part-glazed timber panelled door (engraved glass); engraved side-lights; plate-glass fanlights; decorative tiled vestibule floor. Timber skirting boards; original cornice-work; ceiling roses; main stair comprising cast-iron uprights; timber balustrade.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION LINKED N OUTBUILDING: single window centred at 1st floor; single windows at ground in 2 bays to N; blind to S. Graded grey slate piend; replacement rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIER: rubble sandstone wall to Ardbeg Road; stop-chamfered square-plan pier to left; faceted pyramidal cap (pier to right missing).

Statement of Interest

An impressive building which retains many original features - note the ashlar hoodmoulds, tripartite doorpiece, cast-iron brattishing, finials, engraved glass and interior plaster work. Both Ordnance Survey maps mark this as Wyndham Cottage.

Rothesay is one of Scotland's premier seaside resorts, developed primarily during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and incorporates an earlier medieval settlement. The town retains a wide range of buildings characteristic of its development as a high status 19th century holiday resort, including a range of fine villas, a Victorian pier and promenade.

The history and development of Rothesay is defined by two major phases. The development of the medieval town, centred on Rothesay Castle, and the later 19th and early 20th century development of the town as a seaside resort. Buildings from this later development, reflect the wealth of the town during its heyday as a tourist destination, and include a range of domestic and commercial architecture of a scale sometimes found in larger burghs. Both the 19th and early 20th century growth of the town, with a particular flourish during the inter-war period, included areas of reclaimed foreshore, particularly along the coast to the east of the town and around the pier and pleasure gardens.

(List description revised as part of Rothesay listing review 2010-11).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17775141

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