36, 38 Castle Street, Rothesay, Bute, Rothesay, Argyll and Bute

Entry Name: 36, 38 Castle Street, Rothesay, Bute

Listing Name: 36 and 38 Castle Street

Listing Date: 24 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391477

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44819

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391477

Location: Rothesay

County: Argyll and Bute

Town: Rothesay

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Traditional County: Buteshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Description

Mid to later 19th century; refurbished late 20th century. Classically-detailed 3-storey with basement, 4-bay tenement (advanced bay to outer left). Harl-pointed rubble sandstone; raised, polished margins; tooled yellow rubble sandstone dressings. Polished band course at principal floor; raised lintel course beneath corniced eaves; tooled rubble quoins. Architraved windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors (corniced at 1st floor); corbelled cills at ground.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: cast-iron balustraded stair to ground floor entrance in penultimate bay to outer left; plate-glass fanlight; painted surround; corbelled cornice; single windows aligned at 1st and 2nd floors. Regularly fenestrated at ground, 1st and 2nd floors in 2 bays to right of entrance; single basement window in penultimate bay to outer right; flanking single doors (entrance No 34 Castle Street in bay to outer right). Advanced bay to outer left comprising tripartite windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors.

Predominantly replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows; 6-pane sash and case tripartite glazing. Grey slate roof; corniced wallhead and apex stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

Statement of Interest

Refurbished 1996. An impressive tenement forming part of a hillside terrace (see separate list entry for adjacent No 34 Castle Street). Note the corniced windows, architraved surrounds, wallhead stacks and corbelled entrance.

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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