Description

Earlier 19th century (circa 1825?); flatted later 20th century (circa 1984). Asymmetrical, 2-storey with attic, 3-bay plain classical style house; entered at front and rear. Painted cherry-cocked rubble; raised, painted margins. Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves; blocking course; pilastered quoins. 3/4-engaged cast-iron columnar mullions set in full-height, 3-light bow in bay to outer left; projecting cills to remaining openings; pilastered entrance. Random rubble sandstone at sides and rear.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps to 2-leaf timber panelled door centred at ground; geometric-patterned fanlight; surrounding pilastered doorpiece comprising plain frieze, cornice, block pediment, raised keystone. Single window at 1st floor aligned above entrance; single windows at both floors in bay to outer right. 3-light bowed windows to ground and 1st floors in bay to outer left; tiered and fluted cast-iron Corinthian columns set between panes at front. Modern slate-hung dormer off-set to right of centre.

Replacement glazing throughout. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; corniced rendered apex stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped whitewashed cherry-cocked rubble wall to Battery Place; replacement pedestrian entry gate.

Statement of Interest

A simple flatted house with some interesting detailing - in particular, the cast-iron columns, full-height bow and original fanlight. The 1896 Ordnance Survey map depicts this house without its front bow, thus implying it to have been a later addition. The decorative use of cast-iron is common in Rothesay - see list entries for No 9, 10 & 10a Mount Stuart Road and, No 20 Battery Place.

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 Q77769860

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