Description

Mid to later 19th century. Asymmetrical 3-storey with attic, 5-bay former hotel converted to form 2 separate tenements later 20th century. Random rubble sandstone; polished red sandstone margins; droved red rubble dressings. Raised base course; corniced eaves; plastic repairs to squared and snecked blocking course. Prominent red sandstone quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings. Corniced windows at 1st floor; projecting quadripartite windows to outer left; round-arched attic windows set in Mansard roof.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: replacement door at ground in penultimate bay to outer left, narrow fanlight; single window centred at ground; replacement door in penultimate bay to outer right; single window in bay to outer right. Quadripartite glazing row at each floor in projecting bay to outer left; regularly fenestrated in remaining bays at 1st and 2nd floors; 6 attic windows equally disposed.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate Mansard roof; cast-iron brattishing; raised skews. Rendered wallhead stack to S; various circular cans.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low coped red sandstone wall to Argyle Street; square-plan gatepiers flanking entrances to right and left, pyramidal caps; foliate cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

Empty 1996. Shown on the Ordnance Survey map as having formed part of the Queen's Hotel. Makes an interesting group with the adjoining block - now Nos 1 - 8 Grand Marine Court (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 Q77769838

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