Description

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical pair of semi-detached 2-storey with attic, 2-bay classical style houses. Coursed yellow sandstone ashlar; raised ashlar dressings. Raised base course; lintel course beneath moulded eaves; pilastered quoins. Corniced and architraved surrounds to ground floor windows; corbelled cills; plain surrounds at 1st floor; projecting cills. Corniced and pilastered door-surrounds. Random rubble at sides.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to timber panelled doors centred at ground; quadripartite fanlights; pilastered surrounds. Single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right respectively; regularly fenestrated at 1st floor; bipartite box-dormer centred in each.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows (modern glazing at ground to No 33). Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews. Corniced sandstone ridge stack at centre; coped apex stack to N (rendered); corniced apex stack to S (sandstone); various circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

OUTBUILDING: piended, rectangular-plan single storey random rubble outbuilding to S No 33. Tooled rubble dressings; grey slate roof; rooflight.

BOUNDARY WALL: coped random rubble wall to Argyle Terrace.

Statement of Interest

A simple, symmetrical pair with some good detailing - in particular, the timber panelled doors, pilastered entrances, fanlights and corniced openings. The pairing of 2-bay villas, with linking Giant Order pilasters, in this manner, is most unusual.

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 Q17775215

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)