Description

Mid 19th century. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 5- by 2-bay near U-plan gabled house with Jacobean detailing. Painted harl; painted margins; painted, stop-chamfered strip quoins. Painted plinth; corniced eaves; skewed gables. Chamfered surrounds to openings; architraved hoodmoulds; projecting cills. Octagonal-plan yellow ashlar sundial set in grounds to N.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: skew-gabled entrance porch at ground across re-entrant angle in penultimate bay to outer left; scrolled finial; inverted shouldered-arch surround centred below; inverted shouldered-arch surround to timber panelled door facing E within; bipartite fanlight. Architraved hoodmould surmounting single window at ground in bay to outer left; 2 round-arched slit-openings centred in apex at 1st floor. Advanced single and 2-storey gabled wings in remaining bays to right; single windows at ground and 1st floor beneath finialed gable in penultimate bay to outer right; single windows at ground in flanking finialed bays.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-light corniced canted window at ground in bay to outer left; balustraded balcony above; architraved hoodmould surmounting single window centred in apex at 1st floor. Single window at ground in slightly advanced bay to outer right; gabled single window breaking eaves above; scrolled finial.

Lying-pane glazing to both elevations. Graded grey slate pitches; raised skews; some original cast-iron rainwater goods. Stop-chamfered apex stacks to N and S each comprising 4 square-plan flues; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

SUNDIAL: yellow ashlar octagonal-plan sundial dated 1827; splayed capital; square cap; engraved circular dial; angular pointer.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: round-arched rubble coping to random rubble wall to Craigmore Road. Stop-chamfered whitewashed square-plan piers flanking entrance; inset shouldered-arched panels; cornice; square caps; replacement cast-iron vehicular access gate.

Statement of Interest

An interesting house deriving influence from many sources including Tudor and Jacobean. Note the skewed gables, scrolled finials, inverted shouldered-arch surrounds, hoodmoulds, square flues and dated sundial.

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 Q77769958

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