Description

Earlier 19th century; converted for office use later 20th century. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay classical style house with projecting stair tower at rear; 2 storey, single bay infill to outer right. Painted harl; raised margins (yellow sandstone ashlar at ground; painted at 1st floor). Raised base course; lintel course beneath corniced eaves; painted blocking course; prominent painted quoins. Pedimented tripartite windows at ground comprising scrolled detailing at base, stone mullions, corbelled cills. Columnar entrance.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled door set in central architraved surround; blind fanlight; projecting doorpiece comprising flanking detached Ionic columns, full entablature, surmounting parapet with stepped round-arched centre surrounding armorial panel (missing). Pedimented tripartite windows at ground in flanking bays; single windows in all bays at 1st floor. 3-light canted dormers to outer left and right; pedimented dormer at centre; surmounting tapering finial. INFILL: timber door at ground; single window aligned at 1st floor.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to all openings. Grey slate roof; slate-hung dormers; raised stone skews. Corniced ridge sack to E; circular cans; apex stack to W missing cans.

INTERIOR: converted for use as office.

Statement of Interest

7 and 9 Castle Street is a well detailed example of an early 19th century classical townhouse with fine architectural detailing such as the columned entrance portico and tri-partite windows. The building uses high quality materials, such as the sandstone ashlar dressings, and this is characteristic of the early development of the town as a high status holiday destination from the early nineteenth century onwards.

Rothesay is one of Scotland's premier seaside resorts, developed primarily during the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, and it 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 more often 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 Q17775291

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