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5 Bishop Terrace, Rothesay, Bute

A Category C Listed Building in Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8368 / 55°50'12"N

Longitude: -5.0505 / 5°3'1"W

OS Eastings: 209074

OS Northings: 664605

OS Grid: NS090646

Mapcode National: GBR FFX8.TM9

Mapcode Global: WH1LM.DK89

Plus Code: 9C7PRWPX+PR

Entry Name: 5 Bishop Terrace, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: 5 Bishop Terrace Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 12 November 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391465

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44810

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391465

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

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Description

Mid to later 19th century. Symmetrical single storey with basement and attic, 3-bay simple classical style house forming near pair with adjacent No 4. Coursed stugged sandstone; painted sandstone dressings. Raised band course at principal floor; lintel course beneath corniced eaves. Painted quoins; painted long and short surrounds to openings; stepped hoodmoulds above ground floor windows; projecting cills. Coursed sandstone double-forestair; pilastered entrance.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: double-forestair comprising decorative cast-iron uprights, cast-iron handrail to advanced gabled doorpiece at centre; recessed replacement door centred within; plate-glass fanlight; flanking Doric pilasters, plain frieze, block pediment, raised keystone. Single windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; 3-light canted dormers aligned above. Small rectangular windows at basement in bays to outer left and right.

Predominantly replacement timber glazing; uPVC glazing to dormers. Graded grey slate roof; raised stone skews; rendered apex stacks to NE and SW; cans missing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-arched coping to coursed stugged sandstone wall to Bishop terrace. Paired whitewashed panelled square-plan piers flanking pedestrian and vehicular entrances; pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Some interesting features - note the double-forestair, pilastered doorpiece and panelled gatepiers. Forms a pair, in basic arrangement at least, with the adjacent No 4 (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).

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