Description

Earlier to mid 19th century; flatted mid 20th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house forming one of a pair; entered at front and rear. Painted rubble sandstone; raised, painted margins; painted strip quoins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves; pilastered doorpiece; projecting cills. Harl-pointed random rubble at rear; raised, painted margins; part-rendered exterior stair. Harl-pointed single storey, 4-bay outbuilding at rear.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to part-glazed 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; opaque-glazed fanlight; surrounding corniced doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, plain frieze, block pediment, raised keystone. Single window centred at 1st floor; single windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right; 3-light canted dormers above.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: balustraded stair to upper flat off-set to left of centre; single opening; multi-paned fanlight; single windows at both floors in remaining bays to left and right. Piended single and tripartite dormers.

Predominantly replacement glazing. Graded grey slate roof; raised skews; corniced apex stacks to N and S; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

OUTBUILDING: 3-light window in penultimate bay to outer right; boarded timber doors in remaining bays to left and right; grey slate roof; harled, flat-roofed addition to outer left.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS: low coped random rubble wall to Ardbeg Road; replacement cast-iron pedestrian entry gate. Corniced square-plan piers to outer left and right; square caps.

Statement of Interest

Retains architectural interest despite subdivision and replacement glazing. A simple but impressive grouping with the adjacent Nos 18, 18a & 19 (see separate list entry). Note the pilastered doorpieces, raised margins and corniced eaves.

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 Q77773419

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)