Description

Earlier to mid 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic and basement, 3-bay plain classical style house forming pair with adjacent No 1. Painted coursed rubble sandstone; raised, painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves; blocking course. Pilastered quoins; corniced, consoled doorpiece; projecting cills.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: decorative cast-iron balustraded stair to central entrance comprising replacement door; geometric-patterned fanlight; surrounding doorpiece comprising flanking pilasters, consoled brackets beneath cornice. Single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; regularly fenestrated at 1st floor; 3-bay box-dormer centred above.

Modern glazing throughout. Graded grey slate roof; raised skews; corniced apex stack to N; corniced ridge stack to S; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped random rubble wall to Argyle Place

Statement of Interest

Despite replacement glazing, a modern door and large box-dormer, the house retains architectural interest both in its classical detailing and prominent sea-front position. Although Wood's map, 1825, shows the adjacent No 1, it does not show this house - here, simply an empty site marked as having been allocated to a "Mr McIntosh" (see separate list entry).

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 Q77769824

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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