Description

Early 19th century. Symmetrical 3-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style flatted house. Painted coursed rubble sandstone; raised, painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves; pilastered quoins; corniced doorpiece; projecting cills.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to central entrance comprising replacement glazed aluminium door; opaque fanlight; architraved, corniced door surround with block pediment. Single windows at ground flanking entrance; single windows in all bays at 1st and 2nd floors. 3-light canted dormers in bays to outer left and right flanking central skylight.

Predominantly replacement glazing. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; corniced apex stack to N; circular cans; rendered apex stack to S; cans missing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped painted sandstone wall to Argyle Place; corniced square-plan gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Unusual for its 3 storeys, the house retains architectural interest both in its simple classical detailing and prominent sea-front position. Note the corniced doorpiece and pilastered quoins.

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 Q77769832

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)