Description

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay gabled former manse; single storey lean-to addition at rear. Random rubble sandstone; whitewashed margins. Whitewashed render plinth; moulded eaves; fleur-de-lys finials surmounting skewed gables. Narrow strip quoins; stugged rubble quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; stepped hoodmoulds at ground.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stairs to timber panelled door centred at ground; tripartite fanlight; architraved, hoodmoulded door-surround; single window at 1st floor; small narrow window centred in gable. Single windows at both floors in bays to outer left and right centred in smaller outer gables.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay with single bay addition to outer left. Single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; single windows in all bays at 1st floor (blind in bay to outer right); 2 small narrow windows centred in gable. Lean-to addition comprising single window off-set to right of centre.

Replacement aluminium windows at ground; 2-pane timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; timber attic casements. Graded grey slate piend; raised stone skews; coped ridge stacks flank centre (cans missing).

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped random rubble wall to Argyle Terrace; whitewashed gatepiers flank entrance.

Statement of Interest

Marked on the 1863 map as the West Free Church manse. By 1924, it had become the United Free Church manse.

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 Q77769850

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