Description

Earlier to mid 19th century; later 20th century internal alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house entered at front and rear; full-height bowed stair tower centred at rear. Harl pointed rubble sandstone; painted margins; painted strip quoins. Raised base course; corniced eaves. Tooled rubble quoins; tooled long and short rubble surrounds to openings; projecting cills; painted pilastered doorpiece. Pitched harl-pointed rubble (whitewashed to front), single storey, single bay outbuilding to N.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber door centred at ground; quadripartite fanlight; corniced doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, plain frieze, block pediment, raised keystone. Regularly fenestrated at both floors in remaining bays; 3-light canted dormers in bays to outer left and right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: stair window centred in projecting tower at 1st floor; replacement doors at ground to N and S. Small single windows flanking tower at both floors in penultimate bay to outer right; single windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right; box-dormers aligned above.

Predominantly replacement glazing. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; slate-hung dormers. Corniced sandstone apex stack to S; coped rendered apex stack to N.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION OUTBUILDING: blind window centred beneath apex to E; corrugated-iron roof; raised skews.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS: low coped whitewashed rubble wall to Ardbeg Road; modern cast-iron pedestrian entry gate; whitewashed obelisk-style piers to outer left and right; pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Despite subdivision, replacement glazing and new doors, this flatted house retains some good features - particularly the pilastered doorpiece, quadripartite fanlight and full-height stair tower to rear.

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 Q77773433

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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